Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mplvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc3!mplvax!rec From: rec@mplvax.UUCP (Richard Currier) Newsgroups: net.news.config,net.news.group,net.micro.mac,net.sources.mac Subject: Re: impending newsgroup cuts Message-ID: <227@mplvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 12:06:29 EST Article-I.D.: mplvax.227 Posted: Wed Oct 30 12:06:29 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 02:37:49 EST References: <472@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <6090@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: rec@mplvax.UUCP (Richard Currier) Organization: Marine Physical Laborator of SIO at UCSD Lines: 33 Xref: dcdwest net.news.config:527 net.news.group:2797 net.micro.mac:3242 net.sources.mac:700 In article <6090@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >> If your criterion for eliminating a group is that it doesn't directly support >> unix users' but that it has a high volume, you can start by getting rid of >> the mega-flamage nets such as net.flame, net.politics, and net.religion... > >That is exactly what is being done, and that is the context in which the >desirability of net.sources.mac was originally raised. >-- > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry Mr Spencer, I'm sure you have the best interests of the net at heart but I must assert that net.sources.mac is used by a number of people at my organ- ization and many others at other sites that I have been communicating with regularly over the past year for legitimate UNIX related work. We are inves- tigating the use of the Macintosh as a productivity tool in the UNIX environ- ment. This group directly supports the WORK efforts of many UNIX users. If you have not as yet gotten a large volume of response to the discussion of killing the group it is because most users of the net probably don't monitor the ad- ministrative groups and don't realize that a group is on the way out until it happens. I stumbled on the fact myself. I plan, however, to take a more serious interest in the way the net is run in the future. It seems that the net has grown out of its adolescence into a more mature state that will need the support and active interest of its users if it is to be usefull in the unix work place. There must be a way to govern the creation and especially the deletion of newsgroups that better serves the unix community that depends on the net for vital information. direction -- richard currier marine physical lab u.c. san diego {ihnp4|decvax|akgua|dcdwest|ucbvax} !sdcsvax!mplvax!rec