richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (10/16/89)
In article <27837@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> dave@cogsci.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes: >In article <33610@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > >>In other words, who the fuck cares? All this fuss about whether a group >>goes in a hierarchy that might give it 5% more distribution? And that 5% >>mostly marginal sites that will prune any group they don't like anyway? > >The issue is not distribution. In this case it is. All things being equal, I still can't tip the scales one way or another for rec. vs. sci. aquaria. There are convincing arguments for both. What does make a big diference is sci goes to all of Europe. An aquarium group not propogating to Europe is like a Unix group not getting to California, Massachusetts and Bell Labs. -- Help wipe out BBQ lighter fluid in your lifetime richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV