Subject: Aquariums and Tropical Fish

From: [email-masked] (Erwin R. Williamson)
Date: 5 May 1995 18:29:50 GMT

Hello All!  I scanned the newsgroups hoping to find something on
aquarium fish, but this group is the closest thing to it I could 
find.  Any suggestions or maybe a pointer to a web site?  I'm sure
there are many Aquarium enthusiasts out there and I'm surprised 
that there isn't a newsgroup out there already!

Hank

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From: [email-masked] (Dustin Laurence)
Date: 7 May 1995 07:53:09 GMT

Peter Unmack <[email-masked]> writes:

>There are at least three aquarium groups

>alt.aquaria, sci.aquaria, rec.aquaria.  There is also a plants one and 
>probably a marine one to.

There are indeed rec., alt., and sci.aquaria groups.  They are largely
redundant for historical reasons, but rec receives the best
propagation and will be the basis for creating subgroups in the
future.  The other two groups are obsolete except that the peculiar
history of the groups has resulted in some sites receiving only one of
the three groups, so that none can be removed at this time.

There is no group for planted aquaria that I am aware of; if such a
newsgroups exists as the current poster of the aquaria faq I should
probably be made aware of it.  There is no specifically marine group
(yet).

There is a rec.ponds group for pondkeepers, and a (poorly propagated)
alt.aquaria.killies for killifish fanciers.

That is all that comes to mind at the moment.

Dustin

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