Xref: utzoo sci.bio:2678 alt.aquaria:5948 rec.aquaria:361 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rice!brazos.rice.edu!bbc From: bbc@nysa.rice.edu (Benjamin Chase) Newsgroups: sci.bio,alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria Subject: Re: marine bio Message-ID: Date: 4 Feb 90 17:42:24 GMT References: <72171@tiger.oxy.edu> <2267@altger.UUCP> <25484@gryphon.COM> Sender: root@rice.edu Reply-To: Benjamin Chase Followup-To: sci.bio Distribution: usa Organization: CRPC, Rice University Lines: 27 In-reply-to: richard@gryphon.COM's message of 1 Feb 90 20:44:46 GMT richard@gryphon.COM (The Man with the Four Way Post) writes: >In article <2267@altger.UUCP> mike@altger.UUCP (Mike Hoffmann) writes: >>Hello! >> >>I would second sci.bio.marine! >>I'm very interested in MArine Biology, but often skip reading sci.bio, >>because of the mass of other biological topics spoken about, in there. >Are you sure you want sci.bio.marine, and not the more general >sci.bio.aquatic ? I was thinking of other freshwater bodies >of water which contain equally interesting life forms. Well, Richard, you should read Mike's posting before replying to it, and then you might have the answer. He says "I'm very interested in MArine Biology". And he goes on to say that he doesn't read sci.bio because there's too much other stuff there... If we create another group that seems at all appropriate for discussions of Crypts, Killies, etc., you will be doing crossposts to four groups, rather than three. What's the point? I third the call for sci.bio.marine ------ (I just enrolled in a course titled "Biological Oceanography". Maybe I'll even be a contributor on s.b.m? -- Ben Chase , Rice University, Houston, Texas