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From: gcf@panix.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Some observations on this whole mess.
Message-ID: <373@panix.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 89 20:33:27 GMT
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price@mpx0.lanl.gov (The Quantum Mechanic) writes:
)Now, maybe I'm being naive, but this whole discussion seems to be missing 
)the point.  The *real* question, as far as I can tell, is:
)
)   *Why* is sci.* distributed more widely than rec.*?

Because sci means science, and science is serious and real and
people make money off it.  So a lot of places will take sci.* that
won't take soc.* or rec.* or talk.*.  Especially for-profit
businesses with active bean-counters.

What we should be trying to do is sneak as much good stuff into
these places under sci.* as possible -- not going along with their
absurd concepts of value.  I'm still waiting for sci.sex and
sci.flame and sci.bizarre.  And of course the comp.eniac
hierarchy....
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