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From: schinder@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Paul Schinder)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: .aquaria
Message-ID: <9160@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 89 04:13:15 GMT
References: <21442@gryphon.COM> <38940@looking.on.ca> <211@jove.dec.com>
Reply-To: schinder@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu (Paul Schinder)
Organization: Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <211@jove.dec.com> reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) writes:

>
>I think sci.aquaria is a wonderful idea. There will be about as many
>professional marine biologists reading it as there are professional
>astronomers reading sci.astronomy or professional linguists reading sci.lang.
>I'll read it, for sure.

Excuse me, but several professional astronomers actively post to
sci.astro, and I know several more here (including me) that actually
read it and occasionally post; there must be many more around the
country.  Sci.astro often serves at times as a conduit for news of
interest to professionals, in particular in February-March-April 1987
when SN1987A went off, and earlier this year when a sub-millisecond
pulsar was possibly detected (still unconfirmed) in SN1987A.
Professionals in the sciences actually do read at least some of the
sci groups.
-- 
Paul J. Schinder
Department of Astronomy, Cornell Univ.
schinder@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu