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From: dianeh@gryphon.COM (Diane Holt)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: The right way to run a trial hierarchy
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Date: 13 Nov 89 14:42:58 GMT
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Reply-To: dianeh@binky.UUCP (Diane Holt)
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In <3923@sbcs.sunysb.edu> brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>Richard creates trial.sci.aquaria and Bryce creates trial.rec.aquaria.
>After a month, depending on how fish owners have used the groups, one or
>both proposers go to the Committee; and either sci.aquaria or rec.aquaria
>is created as the trial groups disappear.

And if they both succeed?  Do you create both?  One for discussing color-
coordinating the tint of your goldfish bowl to match the tile of your
bathroom counter, and all the darling little plastic accessories you
can get for it, like treasure chests and stone castles; one to discuss
the latest scientific information regarding developing and maintaining
an ecosystem in which to keep and breed fish?  Or is that too sensible?

Diane Holt
(dianeh@binky.UUCP)

"Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor -- not a logician."