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From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: The "*" in "*.herpetology" (Re: A Hum Domain)
Summary: sci groups
Keywords: It's a joke, I say a joke, son.
Message-ID: <+6R1CJ7xds8@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 14 Feb 90 10:59:25 GMT
References: <3284@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <3285@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <7534@yunexus.UUCP>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
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In article <7534@yunexus.UUCP>, gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) writes:
> 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?
> 
> seems like sci.zoo(ology).herpetology to me...
> 
> 
> hmmm...... sci.zoo.*
>            sci.botany.*


Let me object to the latter on Peter's behalf.  Being from Australia,
he'd probably prefer to keep botany at bay.


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