Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site luke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!hao!noao!amd!pesnta!hplabs!oliveb!bene!luke!steven From: steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List) Newsgroups: net.ham-radio,net.news.group Subject: Re: new group net.ham-radio.packet -- history/apology/future Message-ID: <244@luke.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Jun-85 12:56:27 EDT Article-I.D.: luke.244 Posted: Sun Jun 23 12:56:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 00:15:22 EDT References: <459@mtunh.UUCP> <315@gatech.CSNET> <460@mtunh.UUCP> <339@gatech.CSNET> Reply-To: steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List) Followup-To: net.news.group Organization: Uncle Bene's Farm Lines: 39 Xref: watmath net.ham-radio:2892 net.news.group:3191 In article <339@gatech.CSNET> spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) writes: >In article <460@mtunh.UUCP> jak@mtunh.UUCP (Jim Kutsch) writes: >>I do not understand why this is of such interest to all those who don't >>read net.ham-radio in the first place!!! > >I'm not claiming that there isn't support for your particular group, [...] >As for others reading our correspondence -- perhaps some of these >issues need to be read and considered by others on the net. Surely you >and I alone are not the ones to decide the fate of this new group, are >we? I'm with Gene. I don't really care particularly about ham radios and such. I do care about the net. Even though we're (I'm) relatively new to the net, we've already run into concerns about the volume of traffic propagated around the world. If criticisms appear about the size of people's SIGNATUREs, why shouldn't we be concerned about passing narrow special-interest traffic around the world? Both a local site and the site to which we feed news have already posted their subscription exclusions because of the amount of traffic. In a related issue I recently corresponded with chuqui@nsc about starting a Plexus User Group group. His response corresponded very closely with Gene's attitude: use a mailing list if the interest group is not large enough to warrant net traffic. I firmly believe in your right to communicate on a subject of interest via the network. The network is a fantastic privilege. With that privilege is responsibility. Should the rest of us incur the cost of communicating information of interest to only a few? I don't have an answer, just a whole bunch of questions. I would like to have more of a feel for how many wish to see your proposed subgroup established before seeing that happen. -- *** * Steven List @ Benetics Corporation, Mt. View, CA * {cdp,greipa,idi,oliveb,sun,tolerant}!bene!luke!steven ***