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From: ss6349@leah.Albany.Edu (Steven H Schimmrich)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES -- Creation of a SCI.GEO newsgroup.
Keywords: Geology, Geophysics, Planetology, Meteorology, Climatology, Geography
Message-ID: <1853@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 22 May 89 05:55:38 GMT
References: <1849@leah.Albany.Edu> <5983@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: ss6349@leah.albany.edu.UUCP (Steven H Schimmrich)
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Organization: Department of Geological Sciences, SUNY at Albany.
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In article <8291@pyr.gatech.EDU> steve@revolver.gatech.edu (Poppa Smurf) 
writes:

> 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

   The  original  name  I suggested (article <1775@leah.Albany.Edu>) was
SCI.EARTH. As I said before -- I could care less  what  it's  called.  I
just want to see the newsgroup come into existence (and if you're in the
school of geosciences, I can't see why you should possibly oppose it for
such  a  minor detail as whether it's GEO or GEOLOGY!). SCI.GEO was what
most everyone wanted during the discussion period (some of whom are  NOT
geologists,  but  people interested in other areas of the earth sciences
such as oceanography, meteorology, etc.). Now  it's  time  to  vote,  it
can't  be  named  SCI.GEOLOGY (except if the voting goes against SCI.GEO
and someone else takes the thankless job of doing this).  As  I've  said
before  --  there  does  not  exist  a  single  name  which would please
everyone. The group is what is important, not its name.

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