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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote
Message-ID: <6974@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 15 Nov 89 14:43:15 GMT
References: <10351@encore.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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In article <10351@encore.Encore.COM> cook@encore.com writes:
> [peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) recently posted that: 
> |Horsefeathers yourself. He should have acceded to the wishes of the
> |obvious majority (and don't give me any bloody grief over that word.

> I have no trouble with the word, just your supposed psychic ability
> to devine the "wishes of the obvious majority". [etc]

Ridicule is an effective tactic if one wants to distract attention from
the topic at hand, but when Richard posts articles to many groups
and sends out mass mailings that say, effectively "vote for sci.aquaria
if you want an aquarium group" it kind of dilutes his claim that
sci.aquaria is the name of choice.

> You haven't been paying attention.  The two variants are both suited
> to groups, but the focus/charters are differen

Just because you take something "a little more seriously" doesn't make
it any less a hobby. Time and money does not a science make. Maybe
I should take some of my hobbies and try to make them "sci" groups.

	sci.hot-air-ballooning
	sci.hacking

Then again, raising a family demands a hell of a lot of time and money,
and requires one to learn all sortos of new skills.

	sci.kids
	sci.homebuying

> Oh, gad.  The old precedent thing.

Yeh. Watch for "sci.virtual-reality" in an active file near you. Are
you proud?

> PLEEEZE stop picking on sci.skeptic!  It is a lively group with
> plenty of interesting discussion.

Yes. Until I unsubscribed to it this morning it had the largest kill-file
of any group I read. It's one of the top "talk" groups going.
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