Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!uunet!aplcen!samsung!usc!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcuhb!rdouglas From: rdouglas@hpcuhb.HP.COM (Robert Douglas) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: The disservice of pushing for sci.aquaria Message-ID: <9660002@hpcuhb.HP.COM> Date: 14 Nov 89 21:59:40 GMT References: <2897@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 26 >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"" Are you sure? Not to start an argument, but who was the one who conducted the name survey while the discussion phase of sci.aquaria was under way? Maybe he'll post his results again, but of the people who responded the greatest percentage was for sci.aquaria. > >-- >`-_-' 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 >---------- Robert Douglas ------------------------------ rdouglas@hpda.HP.COM