Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!usc!hacgate!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: .aquaria
Message-ID: <21442@gryphon.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 89 17:35:33 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 115

In article <1989Oct24.050816.9206@agate.berkeley.edu> gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes:

>>Someone else ran a poll.  The name SCI.AQUARIA won.  The results were posted,
>>at least to alt.aquaria.
>
>  In the only poll I saw posted, sci.aquaria lost.

``You LIE!!'' - Tim Maroney

Sorry couldn't resist.

Nelsons survey was posted to news.groups and alt.aquaria.

Since you missed it the first time, Gene:

>From henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm.bitnet!nmbcu Wed Oct 25 10:32:22 PDT 1989
>
>
>Well, here it is, as promised, the results of the name survey that I took.
>At first, I was surprised at the low response, but then I realized it was
>probably due (but not necessarily), to the heated debate that has been going
>on. My name survey poll probably went unnoticed under all the articles of
>discussion. Anyway, as promised here are the results. It may be of interest
>to note that some of those who voted for sci.* and who stated thier reasons
>as to why, did not say that they were entirely against rec.*, but most of those
>that voted for rec.* and who stated thier reasons as to why, did say that they
>would vote against sci.*. To all the participants, I thank you.
>
>                   ******    Results of Name Survey    ******
>
>Name                     Votes Received
>****                     **************
>
>rec.aquarium                   5
>sci.aquarium                   0
>rec.pets.aquarium              0
>
>rec.aquaria                   11
>sci.aquaria                   16
>rec.pets.aquaria               0
>
>rec.fish                       1
>sci.fish                       0
>rec.pets.fish                  0
>
>Others:
>
>rec.aquariums                  1
>
>
>Votes for rec.aquarium       Total number of votes = 5
>**********************
>
>Ken A. Irwin             - kai@ihlpa.att.com
>Bryce Nesbitt            - bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com
>Gene W. Smith            - gsmith%garnet.berkeley.edu@jade.berkeley.edu
>Mike Bryan               - acd4!mjb@uunet.uu.net
>Karl F. Fox              - zip!karl@cis.ohio-state.edu
>
>
>
>Votes for rec.aquaria       Total number of votes = 11
>*********************
>
>Richard Michael Jungclas - rjungcla@ihlpa.att.com
>Brian G. Gordon          - briang@sun.com
>Chris Faylor             - ednor!cgf@uunet.uu.net
>Ethan Miller             - elm%chilli.berkeley.edu@ginger.berkeley
>David Lawrence           - tale@pawl.rpi.edu
>Dave                     - dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil
>Nancy J. Medd            - njm@oxtrap.aa.ox.com
>Tim Shimall              - shimall@cs.nps.navy.mil
>James Winer              - jwi@lzfme.att.com
>John Ockerbloom          - john.ockerbloom@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu
>Nelson Broat             - nmbcu@cunyvm.cuny.edu
>
>
>Votes for sci.aquaria       Total number of votes = 16
>*********************
>
>Oleg Kiselev             - oleg@gryphon.com
>Terry Steyart            - steyaert@unix.secs.oakland.edu
>John Bridge              - bridge%rcgl1@eng.eng.ohio-state.edu
>Brian Klaas              - bklaas%cmdfs2.intel.com.@relay.cs.net
>Jerry Durand             - portal!cup.portal.com!jdurand@sun.com
>David Browning           - browning@math.ucla.edu
>Cliff                    - cstein@jarthur.claremont.edu
>Steve Kanefsky           - kanefsky@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
>Alexander Haley          - ahaley@jarthur.claremont.edu
>Mark S. Warren           - msw%chem@ucsd.edu
>Dave                     - dave%mipon3.intel.com@relay.cs.net
>Peter A. Rosenthal       - rosentha@sierra.stanford.edu
>David Robinson           - daver%tekfdi.fdi.tek.com@relay.cs.net
>Valerie Drake            - vdra_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
>"OAK::PBC"               - pbc%oak.decnet@pine.circa.ufl.edu
>Alien                    - frog!cpoint!alien@harvard.harvard.edu
>
>
>Votes for rec.aquariums     Total number of votes = 1
>***********************
>Alan Char                - atari!achar@ames.uucp
>
>
>Votes for rec.fish          Total number of votes = 1
>******************
>David Wright             - dww@stl.stc.co.uk
>
>
>
>                                                                Nelson Broat
>
>
-- 
``They care more about the name than the content?  Amazing.'' - Mark R. Horton
richard@gryphon.COM  decwrl!gryphon!richard   gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV