Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: The disservice of pushing for sci.aquaria Message-ID: <6951@ficc.uu.net> Date: 13 Nov 89 19:41:04 GMT References: <2897@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> <22209@gryphon.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 32 In article <22209@gryphon.COM> dianeh@binky.UUCP (Diane Holt) writes: > 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... For the THOUSANDTH time, I'm sure. All together now: "They didn't vote for "sci.aquaria", they voted for ".aquaria"" Not to mention the fact that the people who care about the namespace are by and large the people who are making the system work... Let's dump this whole thing. I will hold a vote, using the approval system, for an aquarium group. During this vote, I will unsubscribe from news. groups. Let's find out what the *real* will of the people is, with no politicking and partisan bullshit. Of course Richard might choose to disrupt *this* poll, in which case I think we can assume that he doesn't care about the will of the people and we can discard both his poll and mine... and end up with rec.aquarium. The vote will be held from "aquarium@sugar.hackercorp.com". If there is no excessive flamage in the next week I'll send the call for votes something like next monday. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "*Real* wizards don't whine about how they paid their dues" -- Quentin Johnson quent@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu