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From: rec@mplvax.UUCP (Richard Currier)
Newsgroups: net.news.config,net.news.group,net.micro.mac,net.sources.mac
Subject: Re: impending newsgroup cuts
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 12:06:29 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 12:06:29 1985
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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
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	richard currier		marine physical lab	u.c. san diego
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