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From: rissa@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Patricia O Tuama)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Fixing the unbroken
Message-ID: <10554@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 11 Dec 89 06:39:43 GMT
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In article <58888@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>>Gee, I don't know, Brad, -- sci.aquaria was on trial for three years 
>>and still there was a minor disagreement regarding it's creation as 
>>I recall.
>Sci.aquaria was not on trial, it was in alt.  

Oh come on, Brad, it's the same concept.

>The choice of name is a somewhat orthoganal issue.  Ideally name and
>distribution would be independent and this would not have been a problem.

You know, I don't remember this name biz being such a hassle until
recently when all of a sudden it seems to have exploded into inter-
stellar prominence.  The way some people carry on about this you'd
think every single solitary problem usenet encounters could be solved 
in a second if we just had this little committee to take care of de-
ciding what to call new groups.

Mark Horton was right.


>as the people knew enough to ignore whiners.  You ignore the whiners on
>the net and they go away soon enough.

That's what I kept telling Richard and sure enough, most of them have.


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