[41355] in Cypherpunks
[NOISE] Re: Aquaria wars ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Futplex)
Thu Oct 12 23:28:04 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 23:24:28 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: futplex@pseudonym.com
In-Reply-To: <9510121708.AA00880@elysion.eiss.ira.uka.de> from "Hadmut Danisch" at Oct 12, 95 06:08:59 pm
From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Hadmut Danisch writes:
> Some (many) years ago there was a very large and long flamewar at the
> usenet. As far as I know it was called "The Aquaria Wars" because it
> began with a debate about the question whether the newsgroup should be
> named "alt.aquaria" or "alt.aquarium". I am looking for historical
> informations about this flamewar.
That was before my time, but I've certainly heard about it. Check out the
entry for Richard Sexton in Part 4 of Dave DeLaney's excellent Net.Legends FAQ.
(I can't seem to find an _accessible_ HTML copy of it right now, just
several broken ones, but
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/net-legends-faq/part4 works.)
-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>
