Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-sem.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: spaf's note on fa->mod groups Message-ID: <453@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 13:54:11 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-sem.453 Posted: Fri Oct 25 13:54:11 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 19:17:31 EDT References: <9100001@prism.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 28 Now I am pissed. SPAF has decided to groups for hitherto unannounced and by his own arguments undetermined need ARPA->USENET links. What is especially distressing is that he has done this to a WRONG mailing list. The GOULDBUGS mailing list is for BUGS. Specific BUG reports like 4BSD-BUGS@BERKELEY. It is a mailing list which is a direct feed in to the software support department at GOULD. It is not for general net.whining about GOULD processors. However, without any preliminary announcement, nor entry in the announcement groups, he has the intent of setting up "mod.computers.gould" to interact with GOULDBUGS. Sorry, but this is wrong. If Mr. Spafford is going to continue to pull this kind of ploy, he had damn well better do a lot to inform the users of the nature of the groups that he is setting up. How about a copy of INTEREST-GROUPS.TXT (which seems to be the master plan from which he is working) annotated to indicate how the names have been twisted, and sent out with the other instructional messages. Hopefully there is a live moderator on this one instead of an automatic program because if the USENET gets out of hand, the link to the real list that feeds GOULD will stop. How does Mr. Spafford intend to cope with a mailing list that may be establish for GOULDS in general? Do you know why there is no such group now? For the same reason the USENET uses as a criteria, there is no traffic demand for such a group. -Ron