Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!rutgers!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: <6976@ficc.uu.net> Date: 15 Nov 89 14:59:25 GMT References: <6951@ficc.uu.net> <11414@cbnews.ATT.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 38 In article <11414@cbnews.ATT.COM> wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker,00440,cb,1D211,6148604019) writes: > You'r wrong, Peter. I, for one, didn't vote at all based on .aquaria; > my vote was based on sci. I won't even read the new group. One vote. When another 400 folks come up and say the same thing that'll mean something. > The point you keep overlooking is a simple one. Sci is more widely > distributed than rec, misc, or alt. I'm not overlooking it. There is a good reason: most of the "sci" groups are more closely related to the things that make money for the people paying for the newsfeeds. Comp has an even higher distribution, which makes sense: this is a computer network. So your argument comes down to, to me, an assertion that one should support sci.aquaria so people who keep fish should be able to steal bandwidth. You should hope I'd overlook an argument like that. > Now, I understand why some sites don't want to carry these groups, > and that's their business. But quite simply, any group in the sci > heirarchy will get a larger audience than the same group in soc or > rec or talk Like I said. At least until people stop taking "sci" as it gets filled with more and more fishy groups. > Richard, and the readers of .aquaria, had a very good, if selfish, reason > to want their group in the sci. heirarchy. I have said this was the only reason for putting it in "sci". Sounds like a good time for a global rmgroup and a new vote... run by someone with better ethics. -- `-_-' 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