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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: impending newsgroup cuts
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 08:23:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 08:23:03 1985
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> 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.

I agree 100% with Thomas Newton's comments.  The items distributed in
net.sources.mac are useful computer software which is of benefit to
individuals using the computers.  This includes a very large number of
people who also use Unix; consider that much of that software was
*developed* on Unix, using the Unix "Sumacc" development system.  This is
much less dubious than several thousand postings on the use of toilet
paper.

Although it is a slippery-slope argument, one could as easily complain
about all the software distributed in net.sources that only runs on a VAX,
particularly the VMS software.  That "irritates" *me* probably as much as
net.sources.mac irritates Messrs.  Ngai and Spencer.  I think if you took
a survey, you'd find that most sites of any size use net.sources.mac
actively.  However, I don't complain about the VAX software because I know
some people have to clunk and chug along on slow uniprocessor VAXes :-)
and the software is of use to them.  Likewise I don't think one should
complain about net.sources.mac just because one doesn't happen to have one.
Obviously a lot of people do, otherwise so much software wouldn't be
written and distributed for it.

[Note: this message was followed-up from net.micro.mac, since I don't
normally read net.news.group, although I have changed the distribution
back to just net.news.group, where it belongs.  My apologies if the same
thing has already been said there.]
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