Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd 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 Article-I.D.: opus.1022 Posted: Wed Jan 16 23:05:06 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 01:38:44 EST References: <620@turtlevax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 14 > >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.