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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Divisions of net.unix*
Message-ID: <1022@opus.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 23:05:06 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 23:05:06 1985
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> >There is a BIG problem with splitting net.unix*, something people seem to
> >be forgetting.
> >
> >It is called the ARPAnet. A good percentage of the volume of
> >net.unix-wizards and net.unix comes off of the arpanet,...
> 
> This is irrelevant.  We are engineering only one net: that of the USENET.
> Whatever conventions the ARPANET or any other network needn't concern us.

Cute.  Let's make an overt effort to be insular--that seems like a clever
idea for a mechanism designed to disseminate information!
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.