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From: jbaltz@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: The disservice of pushing for sci.aquaria
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Date: 16 Nov 89 01:41:01 GMT
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Reply-To: jbaltz@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Jerry B. Altzman)
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In article <11414@cbnews.ATT.COM> wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker,00440,cb,1D211,6148604019) writes:
>
>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; and it will, therefore, be a *better* newsgroup.

Huh? I don't exactly follow that argument, that a larger readership makes
for a better newsgroup. soc.culture.esperanto is probably one of the best
groups that I read, it doesn't have the readership of rec.humor...


>Richard, and the readers of .aquaria, had a very good, if selfish, reason
>to want their group in the sci. heirarchy.

Right. They wanted to defraud everyone by forcing into sci.* a group that
probably belongs in rec.*

Look at what you said. They made it sci.aquaria only for the distribution,
not that it belonged there. 

OK, so maybe I'm a Namespace Fascist (to quote Richard's response to my
"no" vote...) but it should be rec.aquaria....

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