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From: hougen@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dean Hougen)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Lets do something constructive re: *.aquaria groups
Summary: I need some help
Message-ID: <1990Feb20.060729.27843@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 90 06:07:29 GMT
References: <1990Feb20.003710.26194@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <38785@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - CSCI Dept.
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In article <38785@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>hougen@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dean Hougen) writes:
>
>>Will anyone help me clear this up? 
>
>Well, if I were going to fix the aquaria problem, here's what I'd do. I'd
>run one more vote on the net, asking users to choose the best name for the
>group:
[example deleted for brevity]
>But then, I'm not going to fix the aquaria problem. Maybe someone else will.

The problem I have with this solution is that it *assumes* that what the net
wants and/or what is best for the net is a single aquaria group.  While I
think it is clear that at least one aquaria group is desired (or would at
least be tollerated) in the rec. hierarchy, it is still an open question
about additional possible groups.  I think the net should get a chance to
decide this seperate from the existence of rec.aquaria.  Alot of the bitch-
ing about the sci.aquaria vote was that it was in the way of voting for a
group that no one objected to.

Still hoping there are netters out there who want to clear this mess up
and erase a mark against the net.

Dean Hougen
--
"I used to think the world was flat,
 Rarely threw my hat into the crowd,
 I felt I had used up my quota of yearning."  - Roger Waters