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From: dianeh@gryphon.COM (Diane Holt)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: The disservice of pushing for sci.aquaria
Message-ID: <22209@gryphon.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 89 14:57:42 GMT
References: <2897@viper.Lynx.MN.Org>
Reply-To: dianeh@binky.UUCP (Diane Holt)
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In article <2897@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> dave@viper (David Messer) writes:
>It may be that Richard has done us a disservice by pushing the name
>sci.aquaria against the will of those people who care about the
>group name-space.

As opposed to the will of the people who voted for it...

>A group for aquarium hobbiests is certainly welcome on USENET, but,
>because of the name, it may not be generally available.

On the contrary, because of the name it will be more widely distributed
than it was before, or than it would be under the rec hierarchy.

Unless of course, you've got a total yo-yo for a system administrator.

>Many people seem to be under the impression that this is a democracy --
>it isn't -- USENET is an anarchy.  No system administrator is constrained
>in the least by the "will of the majority". [...]  When an attempt is made
>to force the creation of a group with an [...] inappropriate name
    [^--at gunpoint? -- just curious]
>(i.e. sci.aquaria),  system administrators may simply choose not to carry it.
>
>This system won't be carrying sci.aquaria.

Let me see if I've got this -- you'd carry rec.aquaria but not sci.aquaria,
simply because you don't happen to like the name, yet it's Richard who's done
a "disservice"?

>Remember Tiananmen Square.           | David Messer       dave@Lynx.MN.Org -or-

Indeed, indeed.  Remember it well.

Diane Holt
(dianeh@binky.UUCP)

"When the music's over, turn out the lights."