The name that I had previously mentioned to Richard Sexton, if I'm remembering
correctly was SCI.AQUARIA.RESEARCH. So lets give renaming a try. What do you
say?
P.S. - Please post follow-ups to news.groups only. Thank you.
Nelson Broat
how about something simple like SCI.BIO.FISH
(I'm sure there is a Latin name akin to flora and fauna, but
I can't remember it). it simply makes no sense to have AQUARIA
as a name directly under SCI. I can envision the day when a
group named SCI.BIO.FISH.AQUARIA would deserve to get created
(when the superior group overflows with traffic) - and I can even
imagine someone having a problem because he has only plants and
no fishes in the water) - but maybe someone can then suggest a
SCI.BIO.FLORA or the appropriate Latin word for plant-life in water.
and if someone is absolutely enamoured with the pure science involved
in aquariums, well then let's have a group SCI.TECH.AQUARIUMS,
by all means (and 100+ votes) otherwise create a private or
semi-public mailing-list, for all I know there already may be
one around. And please do consider that electronic news can
in many aspects never come close to what you can get out of a
paper-magazine !!!
I deplore that rec.aquaria is getting a bad name because some
idiots insisted on creating sci.aquaria and it is high time that
reasonable people adjust things so hobbyist can have their forum
and those who discuss fishies on a scientific level have a respected
and well-distributed forum also. I mean it is not so hard to admit
that discussing fishies in sci.bio (which currently has only one
subgroup, named "technology") is not as appealing as having a
subgroup SCI.BIO.FISH
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How about SCI.AQUACULTURE.
Certainly aquaculture qualifies as a scientific subject with all of the
work done with salmon, seaweed (mostly Chondrus crispus), and a host of
other areas. You can argue about the scale and commercial applications,
but any large national aquarium is on a similar scale.
And you won't be arguing about pluralization :-)
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