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From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: news.groups,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Newsgroup request: sci.ocean
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Date: 23 Feb 88 14:05:10 GMT
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David Cogen (cogen@XN.LL.MIT.EDU) makes an excellent point with his
tongue-in-cheek suggestion for the creation of sci.vacuum.  I'd like
to also point out that newsgroups aren't supposed to be created because
they don't exist, but rather because there is some *existing discussion*
that should go into them.  In this case, if there were a huge interest
in the oceans on the net, I'd expect to find at least one or two articles
on the proposed subjects in sci.misc.  Since I don't, I believe it's
fairly obvious that the interest just does not exist and creation of a
new newsgroup is not warranted.  I urge a NO vote.
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
"Intel architectures build character."