Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: .aquaria Message-ID: <6619@ficc.uu.net> Date: 21 Oct 89 04:00:56 GMT References: <20983@gryphon.COM> <4732@ncar.ucar.edu> <2688@cpoint.UUCP> <8348@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <2696@cpoint.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 18 > So, why is it that all the "compromises" I've seen posted are of the > form: > "I don't care that you want to form a group to discuss > technical issues relating to keeping aquaria, I want my rec > group ... Because you haven't been paying attention, perhaps? I suggested that Richard Sexton moderate the group (not pseudo-moderate it: really moderate it, filtering out rec-type messages by answering them). That was apparently too much work for him (for all he told me he'd do it). If he can't make the effort to make it work, why *should* we give him a chance? -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "ERROR: trust not in UUCP routing tables" 'U` -- MAILER-DAEMON@mcsun.EU.net