Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!amdcad!phil From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.singles Subject: Re: The realities of mod.personal Message-ID: <348@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 20:33:42 EST Article-I.D.: amdcad.348 Posted: Wed Dec 5 20:33:42 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 06:27:37 EST References: <135@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AMDCAD, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 36 Xref: watmath net.news.group:2611 net.singles:4761 L S Chabot writes: > What is more significant is do sites really want to pay for > the expense of mod.personal in terms of any increase in phone bills and disk > usage. It is hard to tell, now, what percentage of usenet costs this would > involve. Considering that currently we do have the behavior of contributors > and readers approaching other contributors through mail based on what they've > read by the latter in newsgroup postings, mod.personal would be a natural > evolvement. My guess is that it would also not significantly increase usenet > load--we really can't do any more than guess at this point in time. > > But whether or not I have any use for such, others do--I could not speak > against mod.personal just because it would not benefit me. Ah, but I hear comments like netnews is full of junk all the time. With users you can tell them to unsubscribe. With management it's not so easy. News is an easy thing to attack because it's so big and visible; unless you use it the benefits are hard to see. Mail is small, at least the piece visible to the user, and much more clearly important. I think I can always justify mail service. Therefore, net people approaching others through mail will probably not be noticed or questioned. The natural evolution to mod.personals, however, is one more straw on the camel's back. Here in the San Francisco bay area, I am faced with the loss of two pretty good connections because their management looked at it and saw a lot of nontechnical stuff. So far, I have been lucky with regard to my management. But who knows how long that will last. Well anyway, I just wanted to say that some people are entitled to (and do) speak against things which do not benefit them. Not me but the managers whose money we spend every day. -- I'm not a programmer, I'm a hardware type. Phil Ngai (408) 749-5790 UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!phil ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.ARPA