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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
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Posted: Sun Jun 23 12:56:27 1985
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References: <459@mtunh.UUCP> <315@gatech.CSNET> <460@mtunh.UUCP> <339@gatech.CSNET>
Reply-To: steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
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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.
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