richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (10/27/89)
In article <2556@infmx.UUCP> kevinf@infmx.UUCP (Kevin Franden) writes: > >It seems that this group has turned away from it's unspoken charter >to mere pettiness. Bummer for most of the people who read (or used >to read) this group. Recall that the first time a newsgroup vote was held for an aquaria group, the vote failed. A total of 120 votes were received, and the consensus (and conventional wisdom from rec.pets and news.groups) was, that there was not sufficient interest to make an aquaria group, and making one in hopes of drumming up interest will not. Recall the last time somebody tried to move alt.aquaria out of alt and onto the mainstream net a combined total of about 140 votes were received. I have, so far, over 600 votes. Don't worry, it'll be over soon, the the eventual gains will be worth the temporary period of insanity. The .aquaria people can put /groups/h:j in their kill file to eliminate most of this nonsense. Of course a more cynical view would have it that readers of news.groups could do the same :-) -- ``They care more about the name than the content? Amazing.'' - Mark R. Horton richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV