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From: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: net.internat
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Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 12:57:14 EDT
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Summary: Previous traffic not a good criteria?


a) Previous traffic as a justification for new newsgroup:
I subscribed to net.internat only because rn offered it as a new newsgroup.
I was totally unaware of such discussions elsewhere.  When a new group
appears, I usually subscribe to it, read a few articles, and THEN decide if
it's worth the trouble.

b) restricting net.internat to Europe.

As far as ARBITRARILY restricting net.international to Europe, I am
against it. Quite a few North Americans have another language that
English as their mother tongue? Spanish is an obvious example, and I am
on leave from a francophone university in a part of North-America where
french is an official language, and fighting Unix to make it ingest
french is a daily event...

c) But who should decide? 

No newsgroup should be forced upon any site, not even the backbone
sites.  If somebody upstreams decides not to carry net.bizarre and
net.international, fine.  If the local site administrator really wants
them, then he should get the feed from somewhere else.

As much as I would like to keep net.international and get a
mod.sources.mac,  I guess the decision is not mine to take as a user,
because it is not my money that is being spent.  Administrators should
administrate...

d) a (naive and flamable) comment...

In this era of digital long-haul networks, I find it strange that
backbone sites who are able to justify such enormous amounts of money
are not able to find more cost-efficient ways to transfer the bulk of data
-- 

Jean-Francois Lamy
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, U. de Montreal.

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