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From: gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: The "*" in "*.herpetology" (Re: A Hum Domain)
Keywords: It's a joke, I say a joke, son.
Message-ID: <7534@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 90 16:09:57 GMT
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xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) writes:

| OK, so now where do I put the up-and-coming herpetology mid-level news
| group?  Do I place it by the sound of the top-level name, or by its
| intended meaning of the top-level meaning?

| Anyway, hss.herpetology.snakes sure sounds good to me!  ;-)

Hee hee hee... now seriously folks...


seems like sci.zoo(ology).herpetology to me...


hmmm...... sci.zoo.*
           sci.botany.*



...


nrg
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