Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bee From: bee@cs.purdue.EDU (Zaphod Beeblebrox) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: sci or aquaria? Message-ID: <8709@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 22 Nov 89 07:42:52 GMT References: <22222@gryphon.COM> <1989Nov14.194231.11595@NCoast.ORG> <1989Nov21.165220.16634@talos.uucp> Reply-To: bee@cs.purdue.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox) Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 25 Said kjones@talos.uu.net: (in article <1989Nov21.165220.16634@talos.uucp>) | |As for the name "rec.pets.fish", there's really no comparison between |alt.aquaria and rec.pets. Fish are not pets, any more than a milk cow |is a pet. [ etc. ] Sigh. Supposing we're arguing about the difference between rec.aquaria and rec.pets.aquaria, the reason for the latter rather than the former is that rec.pets is the most appropriate second-level hierarchy for an aquaria group inside the rec hierarchy. The idea is that we don't want boatloads of second-level hierarchies, for the same reason that we don't want boatloads of top-level hierarchies. Fish aren't pets, but they're close enough for Usenet naming purposes. If we're going to start ignoring the hierarchies entirely, then why don't we just have aquaria.beginners, aquaria.tech, etc., with Richard controlling the aquaria hierarchy? [ Note for the brain-dead: I am not even remotely suggesting this as a proposal. ] B.E.E. -- Z. Beeblebrox | "Ich bin ein Berliner!" -- President Kennedy, 1961 (alias B. Elmore) | "Tear down this wall!" -- President Reagan, 1987 bee@cs.purdue.edu | ..!purdue!bee | Berlin Wall RIP 1961-1989