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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Will not allow sci.aquaria to exist at my site.
Message-ID: <36404@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Nov 89 18:43:03 GMT
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oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) writes:

>>Besides, it should be rec.pets.aquarium.

>You have been voted wrong.

No, I haven't, Oleg. All that's been proved in this ordeal is that the
voters were willing to let sci.aquaria exist. That doesn't mean that they
wouldn't have preferred rec.whatever. They were never given the option to
express that opinion at all. In a proper democratic fashion, the voters were
told "here's what I want you to vote for. Say yes" rather than "let us know
what option you think is best".

That sci.aquaria was voted in only proves that sci.aquaria was voted in. It
doesn't say anything about whether rec.aquaria would have been better or
worse. We won't know that until we ask the net, and Richard has successfully
handled the situation so that can't be done.

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