Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!dsndata!wayne From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: is sci.aquaria really alive? (was: Call for discussion: soc.history) Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 90 00:37:00 GMT References: <24823@gryphon.COM> Sender: wayne@dsndata.UUCP Organization: Design Data Lines: 16 In-reply-to: richard@gryphon.COM's message of 16 Jan 90 16:47:08 GMT In article <24823@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > In article <7931ETCggpc2@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > >Actually it was. The proposal was to remove sci.aquaria and create whatever > >group won. Go back and re-read it. Since it turns out that sci.aquaria is > >dead anyway I decided pushing for deletion would be a waste of time. > > I keep getting mail of the ``hey, we just got sci.aquaria here'' type, > which leads me to believe it's not dead. Hell, it ain't even sick. hmmm... in my neck of the woods, as soon as rec.aquaria got created the volume of sci.aquaria dropped to zero. heck, i even took out my alias of sci.aquaria to rec.pets.fish and it didnt change. i dont know about the rest of the net, but i would guess that a lot of places effectively dont get sci.aquaria. -wayne