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- From: slb@slced1.nswses.navy.mil (Shari L Brooks)
- Newsgroups: sci.space,news.groups,sci.astro
- Subject: Re: 2nd (last) RFD sci.space.planets
- Summary: It was backwards
- Message-ID: <21063@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 22:47:29 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.222548.23205@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Sender: news@suned1.nswses.navy.MIL
- Organization: Naval Satellite operations Center, Point Mugu, CA, USA
- Lines: 43
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- This is just to clarify a few things:
-
- In article <1992Jul21.222548.23205@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> knapp@spot.Colorado.EDU
- (David Knapp) writes:
- >Another poke in the side to stimulate discussion of the formation of a
- >.planets group. The following has been discussed so far:
-
- [...many people's worthy opinions deleted...]
-
- > roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV says that
- >
- >"I am interested in it, too, but planetary science is also a major component
- >of sci.astro, which has an even larger bandwidth than sci.space. It would
- >help tremendously, I beleive, to have a .planets group, which would reduce
- >traffic on both groups, and also tend to make the subject matter on all
- >three (sci.astro, sci.space, and the new .planets group) more specific."
-
- >In response to slb@slced1.nswses.navy.mil's saying that
- >
- >">Planetary science is a major component of sci.space, and I'm very interested
- >>in it. If you create sci.planets, then the people who have only limited
- >>Usenet access (me, for instance, at the moment, plus all the people on SPACE
- >>Digest once that's working again) won't be able to read it or post to it,
- >>thus limiting the participation in sci.planets and reducing the value of
- >>sci.space."
-
- The attributions on the above two quotes are backwards. I believe the
- new group would be a great help, and John Roberts is worried about limited
- access.
-
- [...more worthy opinions deleted...]
-
- To reiterate my POV, I think the group should be sci.space.planets; that
- should help the users w/limited access.
-
- I hope the software here lets me post this. It tend to get upset when the
- quote is longer than the original writing.
-
- --
- Shari L Brooks | slb%suned1.nswses.navy.mil@nosc.mil
- NAVSOC code NSOC323D | shari@caspar.nosc.mil
- NAWS Pt Mugu, CA 93042-5013 |
- --> All statements/opinions above are mine and mine only, not the US Navy's.
-