Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!usenet From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Lets do something constructive re: *.aquaria groups Message-ID: <1990Feb21.065343.24268@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 21 Feb 90 06:53:43 GMT References: <##701$@rpi.edu> <10804@saturn.ADS.COM> <1990Feb12.091942.9791@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Feb13.044748.15122@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <1990Feb20.003710.26194@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Reply-To: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) Distribution: usa Organization: Garnet Gang Gems of Wisdom, Inc. Lines: 22 In-reply-to: bbc@legia.rice.edu (Benjamin Chase) In article , bbc@legia (Benjamin Chase) writes: >Gene W. Smith, surprising absolutely nobody as he remains completely >in character, offers us this wonderful advice: >> If it were only possible, rmgrouping sci.aquaria and alt.aquaria *now* >> and then shutting up about it would fix the problem. >(Thankyou, Gene, for your deep insight. Of course, there is the minor >detail that you've left the thousands of fish-o-philes with only >rec.aquaria, Most Mangled of the Holy *.aquaria Trinity.) There was a point to my comment, which I guess you didn't get. I'll spell it out--with rec.aquaria the only fish group, it would not remain mangled. The problems which beset the fish groups could then be fixed. -- ucbvax!garnet!gsmith Gene Ward Smith/Garnetgangster/Berkeley CA 94720 "We never make assertions, Miss Taggart," said Hugh Akston. "That is the moral crime peculiar to our enemies. We do not tell--we *show*. We do not claim--we *prove*." H Akston, the last of the advocates of reason