Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.news.config,net.news.group,net.micro.mac,net.sources.mac Subject: Re: impending newsgroup cuts Message-ID: <6121@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 12:04:06 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.6121 Posted: Tue Nov 5 12:04:06 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 12:04:06 EST References: <472@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <6090@utzoo.UUCP>, <227@mplvax.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 24 > Mr Spencer, I'm sure you have the best interests of the net at heart Actually, I have the survival of the local section of the net at heart. The bills are becoming unsupportable; the volume of traffic must come down. (No, compress and 2400 baud are not enough -- we already use both. The net has demonstrated a remarkable ability to outgrow such temporary fixes, and in fact to grow faster than the rate of introduction of such fixes.) > 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... I am willing to believe this. Are you willing to prove it by using groups like net.sources.mac to publish things that are of use to non-Mac users, i.e. NOT JUST MAC-SPECIFIC BINARIES?!? There is little evidence of this to date. I agree that net.sources.mac directly supports the work-related efforts of many people, a fair number of them involved with Unix as well. What I don't believe, I'm afraid, is that the rest of us are getting a fair return on it. Yes, the net helps you: what have you done to return the favor? -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry