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From: steve@revolver.gatech.edu (Poppa Smurf)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES -- Creation of a SCI.GEO newsgroup.
Keywords: Geology, Geophysics, Planetology, Meteorology, Climatology, Geography
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Date: 22 May 89 02:29:46 GMT
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In article <5983@cs.Buffalo.EDU+ dmark@sunybcs.UUCP (David Mark) writes:
+
+I hereby vote "NO" on sci.geo, strictly because of the name.
+
+Since your recent posting took the hard line "Don't bother suggesting new
+names... It will be named SCI.GEO or it will not be created", I am forced to
+vote "No", because GEO is also the first 3 letters of a major discipline,
+GEOgraphy, which is primarliy concerned with the Social Sciences, and the
+links between humans and environments.  And let's not forget an even older
+discipline, GEOmetry, a branch of mathematiccs.  Since GEOgraphy itself might 
+I would have voted "YES" for SCI.GEOLOGY, or SCI.EARTH_SCIENCE, and will do so,
+if this attempt fails, and if you try again with a more appropriate name.
+
+David Mark
+Professor
+Department of GEOgraphy
+SUNY at Buffalo
+
+dmark@cs.buffalo.edu

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I agree, and I see no "Earthly" reason why you can't simply name it sci.geology.I hope it's not simply ego involvement in having come up with the original name.If you name it sci.geology then I vote "YES."

Steve Fischer (School of Geosciences) 
Georgia Tech