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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: it's a prime number
Message-ID: <21382@gryphon.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 89 17:24:38 GMT
References: <21177@gryphon.COM> <467@icdi10.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Committee to end discussion about .aquaria newgroups
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In article <467@icdi10.UUCP> fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) writes:
>Just because the European backbones may not distribute everything yet 
>certainly does not question the fact that all rec.* groups etc are available 
>to their subscribers - if they want them and are willing to pay for the 
>privilege.

The distribution was just one aspect of this. You can't possible cater
to all levels of expertise with just one newsgroup, and  decision
was made (no, not just by me) that sci.aquaria was preferable
to the taxanomically abhorrent rec.aquaria.tech.

Many of the votes I get confirm this.


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