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From: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: .aquaria
Message-ID: <2723@cpoint.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 89 14:53:29 GMT
References: <20983@gryphon.COM> <4732@ncar.ucar.edu> <2688@cpoint.UUCP> <8348@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <2696@cpoint.UUCP> <8395@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
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In article <8395@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> bee@cs.purdue.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes:
>Said alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells): 
>|In article <8348@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> bee@cs.purdue.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes:

>|>We hear so much from the .aquaria folks about "you don't know what's
>|>in our group; don't tell us where our group should go in the
>|>hierarchy".  My response to that is: "You don't know a damned thing
>|>about the net hierarchy; quit telling us where groups belong in it."

>|I was not aware that Usenet protocol had appointed some group of people
>|(yourself included, apparently) to decide what name each group should have.
>|I will grant you that I am net.naive, but I had thought that the proper
>|protocol was to publicly announce a discussion period with a proposed name,
>|have the discussion, and then call a vote.

>This points out precisely the point I was trying to make, namely that
>you have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHATSOEVER how the net is run (or not run,
>depending on your point of view :-) )

Gee, I had thought that my sarcasm was so obvious that I didn't need the ;-).
Apparently, I was wrong.  Sorry.
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--------|	You've got the political savvy
Alien   |		of a hangnail.
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