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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
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Subject: Re: Some observations on this whole mess.
Message-ID: <3036@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 13 Nov 89 22:29:25 GMT
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In article <1989Nov12.223427.7836@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
>In article <3031@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
>>Aw, cmon. I doubt seriously that any significant fraction of the 466 YES
>>voters gave ti that much thought. "Hey, I want an aquarium group! I'll
>>vote YES!" 
>Right, Jay. Not a one of them thought "Hey, Richard's got a point. If it's
>in sci, we'll have better connectivity. We'll be able to discuss this
>with the aquaria hotshots in Europe."

Doubtful. Quite aside from the fact that the Europeans themselves said
that they probably _would_ get rec.aquaria (and they would be the
authorities on the subject), those who thought that are most likely few
in number and using that as a convenient excuse.

Putting a rec.* group in sci.* just to improve distribution is fraud.

>>	    Conversely, over 300 people most likely did give it that much
>>thought. "Handful of structure freaks"? More like a handful of people
>>who want to destroy the Great Renaming.
>Get real, Jay. Did it ever occur to you that maybe not everyone
>shares your priorities?

A namespace is either clear, consistent, and commonly understood or
unusable. Mistakes like sci.aquaria, comp.[society.]women, sci.skeptic,
and misc.headlines.unitex move the namespace toward the unusable side.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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