Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ritcv.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!petrus!magic!nvc!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!busch!wucs!seismo!rochester!ritcv!gig From: gig@ritcv.UUCP (Gordon Goodman) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.adm,net.news.config Subject: Re: Removing Macintosh related groups from the net. Message-ID: <8997@ritcv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 10:24:36 EST Article-I.D.: ritcv.8997 Posted: Mon Nov 4 10:24:36 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Nov-85 00:23:34 EST References: <226@mplvax.UUCP> Reply-To: gig@ritcv.UUCP (Gordon Goodman) Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Lines: 27 Xref: nvc net.news.group:1336 net.news.adm:135 net.news.config:174 In article <226@mplvax.UUCP> rec@mplvax.UUCP (Richard Currier) writes: > >I must strongly protest the discussed removal of the Macintosh related >groups. I use the groups for my WORK which, among other things, involves >looking into the feasiblity of using the Macintosh as an inexpensive >graphics terminal IN THE UNIX ENVIRONMENT. > >Finding the MacWrite to troff converter and the MacPaint to imagen software >on the group has been helpful to our WORK. It allows us to create documents >with drawings in the Macintosh environment and upload them to be modified and >distributed to others in our UNIX ENVIRONMENT and converted to hardcopy on >our laser printer. > I too use the Mac on a regular basis as my primary interface to our Unix environment and have found many of the postings to the net in the .mac groups enormously helpful. Machines like the Mac are rapidly becoming a part of the larger Unix environment. It is important, for the vitality of the Unix community, not to put on blinders about the significance and impact of readily-available microcomputers as workstations. As I wade through the daily net news, the mac groups are among the very few groups that have real utility. This is a strong vote for the continuation of mac groups in general and .sources.mac in particular. Gordon Goodman School of Computer Science & Technology Rochester Institute of Technology