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From: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Removing Macintosh related groups from the net.
Message-ID: <15275@styx.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 16:56:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 16:56:23 1985
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In article <6100@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > . . .
> > mac.sources are useful, productive and legitimate groups and will remain so 
> > certainly as long as there people on the net investigating the use of the 
> > Macintosh in the UNIX WORK PLACE.
> 
> Have you considered mailing floppies as an alternative?  It's a LOT cheaper,
> and it means that the bills are paid by you rather than by others.  You are
> ignoring the fact that many of the sites paying the bills are *not* using
> the Macintosh in Unix-related work.  It sounds like interesting stuff, but
> why exactly should I pay for voluminous newsgroups related to it?
> -- 
> 				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
> 				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

The net works because we cooperate in serving the needs of other
sites, Henry, even if they don't precisely match our own. Why should
our site pay for the exchange of technical information for hardware we
don't have (AT&T, IBM, etc.)? Because we expect in return that other
sites will support connectivity for articles about things that we DO have,
like VAXen and Macintoshes. It works both ways.

So: have you considered using U.S./Canadian mail as an alternative to
net.{micro.att,micro.ibm-pc, etc.} yet? :-)  It's cheaper than the
net, too.

Michael C. Berch
mcb@lll-tis-b.ARPA
{akgua,allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,dual,ihnp4,sun}!idi!styx!mcb