Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!ames!saturn!xanthian From: xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: is sci.aquaria really alive? (was: Call for discussion: soc.history) Message-ID: <10525@saturn.ADS.COM> Date: 19 Jan 90 23:46:33 GMT References: <24823@gryphon.COM> Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300 Lines: 35 In article wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) writes: =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 Well, here we are receiving about 100 articles a week (closer to the source, I guess), about 30 of which are not crossposted, which to me is a pretty lively newsgroup. However, I see very little _science_ in the postings, its just more "which bulb should I use to make my plants grow" and "my fishie died" postings, as of old. Even some of mine! -- Again, my opinions, not the account furnishers'. xanthian@well.sf.ca.us xanthian@ads.com (Kent Paul Dolan) Kent, the (bionic) man from xanth, now available as a build-a-xanthian kit at better toy stores near you. Warning - some parts proven fragile. -> METAFONT, TeX, graphics programming done on spec -- (415) 964-4486 <-