Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cdin-1!icdi10!fr From: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: sci.aquaria.birdfeed (was: Guppies) Message-ID: <778@icdi10.UUCP> Date: 18 Feb 90 23:09:54 GMT References: <##701$@rpi.edu> <10804@saturn.ADS.COM> <1990Feb12.091942.9791@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Feb13.044748.15122@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <3485@oolong.la.locus.com>n Reply-To: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) Distribution: usa Organization: but normally @ Compudata Inc. Phila PA Lines: 27 Keywords: In article <3485@oolong.la.locus.com> oleg@electra.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev) writes: >>a) Are *.aquaria cross-postings really _necessary_? I say no. > >You are wrong. The groups propagations are not identical and there are >large gaps of discontinuity in ALL of the aquaria groups that make >cross-posting necessary. > >do not carry SCI.aquaria. The safest thing to do is x-post to all of >them. It costs the same to transmit as an article posted to one group >only and is much more likely to deliver the article to the readers. This goes against everything Oleg and the proposer of sci.aquaria argued for. They wanted a distinctly separate group for high falutin scientific fish stories. Thos of us who read alt.aquaria or rec.aquaria are not interested in fish science. Mostly its a hobby of intermittent nature. So lets at least not clutter up alt.aquaria with sci.aquaria cross postings. Fred Rump -- This is my house. My castle will get started right after I finish with news. 26 Warren St. uucp: ...{bpa dsinc uunet}!cdin-1!icdi10!fr Beverly, NJ 08010 domain: fred@cdin-1.uu.net or icdi10!fr@cdin-1.uu.net 609-386-6846 "Freude... Alle Menschen werden Brueder..." - Schiller