Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!apple!usc!samsung!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: aliasing sci.aquaria Message-ID: <6988@ficc.uu.net> Date: 16 Nov 89 12:29:59 GMT References: <1989Nov16.003038.547@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 21 In article <1989Nov16.003038.547@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) writes: > As long as I'm posting, I might as well put my two cents worth in. I voted > for sci.*, not *.aquaria. I would have abstained from a rec.aquaria vote. OK, why did you vote for sci.* when you didn't care about the group at all? Because someone talked you into it? Because you were pissed at the folks who were trying to kill the group (we weren't, by the way)? Because you wanted to make a philosophical point? > I don't understand the argument that says the name-space must remain > consistent. It seems to me that that is an impossible goal, UNLESS you > use a concept like Unix hard links (where a single entity occupies more > than one location in the name space). We do. It's called "crossposting". (which is, by the way, generally implemented using UNIX hard links). -- `-_-' 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