XPost: alt.cats, us.config 
 From: nobody@localhost 
  
 Today, Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:46:31 -0700,  Two Buddha  read a post from 
   Matthew Montchalin  ,  and determined his 
 interest in 
  BURP. Where's my beer? Oh and: 
  
  
 >On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, ~*SooZy*~ wrote: 
 >|rec.pets.cats.breeds is a brilliant idea... 
 > 
 >But is it properly named?  Why is the proposed name any better 
 >than rec.pets.cats.pedigrees?  Okay, it's arguable whether creating 
 >a new newsgroup in the alt.* hierarchy is any easier than creating 
 >one in the Big8, but have you considered alt.cats.pedigrees? 
 >People stumble on a newsgroup for the very first time usually as 
 >a result of the use of a search engine.  If they are looking to 
 >obtain a cat, and it is an unusually rare cat, then geographical 
 >location might be a fairly important factor to consider.  Perhaps 
 >a better place for that kind of a newsgroup would be: 
 > 
 >   us.talk.cats+registries 
 > 
 >or something similar to that.  Remember, you are going to be 
 >running into a fair number of people who dispute what constitutes 
 >any particular breed.  (If you do choose to work with the us.* 
 >hierarchy, you will do well to know that the us.* hierarchy tends 
 >to prefer 72 column screen widths, however, which is a fairly 
 >convenient screen size for displaying tables of information.) 
 > 
 >So long as I brought up the issue of geography, it suddenly 
 >occurred to me to look at the de.* hierarchy.  Sure enough, 
 >there's a fairly healthy amount of traffic for de.rec.tiere.katzen, 
 >but assuming that de.rec.tiere.katzen is the motherlode of cat 
 >traffic in the de.* hierarchy, I don't see any splinter groups 
 >stemming off of it relating to cats and cat issues.  Maybe it's 
 >a whole lot harder to create new newsgroups in the de.* hierarchy? 
 >(Yeah, who would have figured.) 
 > 
 >|I am a cat lover be it purebreds or moggies and I hate up setting 
 >|the people who will only get a cat from a shelter, they can't see 
 >|the attraction of pure breeds which I respect, used to think that 
 >|way myself, there are too many un wanted cats out there. On the 
 >|other hand why should I feel guilty for buying 2 Ragdolls, I love 
 >|them just as much as my little moggie. 
 > 
 >There is nothing wrong with loving cats, but love - in and of itself- 
 >is not a logical reason for choosing the name of a new newsgroup. 
 > 
 > 
  
  
 OH GOODY!!! Will this cover the one where they kitties are bred 
 in a jar? That SO *cool*! I have two Bonsai Kitties now and I'm 
 hoping for two more! I keep screwing up, but I'll get there. 
  
  
 http://www.bonsaikitten.com/ 
  
  
  
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