Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!phillips From: phillips@reed.UUCP (Patrick Phillips) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group Subject: Re: Time to Defend Net.sources.mac!!! Message-ID: <2084@reed.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 13:49:12 EST Article-I.D.: reed.2084 Posted: Thu Oct 31 13:49:12 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:24:43 EST References: <1193@cbdkc1.UUCP> Reply-To: phillips@reed.UUCP (Patrick Phillips) Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 30 Xref: watmath net.news:4209 net.news.group:4151 In article <1193@cbdkc1.UUCP> gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart WDS ) writes: > >Attention Fellow Mac Users: > >There have been recent discussion in net.news and net.news.group about >removing net.sources.mac because of its high volume (a.k.a. cost!) and >small audience. > ... > Second, the audience for net.sources.mac is "potentially" very large. I have to agree. Unless some policy decision is made regarding the Net only containing UNIX related items, net.sources.mac should say. Because of the very nature of the group, it is hard to assess readership. There are only so many programs to be posted, and once they, there is no reason to repost them. Because of this, a few ardent program-posters could heavily skew the total number of people posting stuff. But this does not mean that there aren't thousands of people reading the group. My feeling is that there are many people using the group. There are probably upwards of 20 Apple University Consortium schools on the Net, and I'm sure that they all follow net.sources.mac closely. A Reed, we have a software librarian who is supposed to be reading the net and collecting all of the programs (I hope she's doing her job :-). There are probably many independent users who also use this resource. Until we define a Usenet policy regarding non-UNIX groups, net.sources.mac should stay. If you don't like it, don't receive it. Patrick Phillips Reed College