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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Re: Removing Macintosh related groups from the net.
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 11:44:37 EST
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> Mailing floppies suffers from ...
> one MAJOR [problem] as compared to electronic distribution: very
> low connectivity.  Or am I supposed to buy 1000 floppies (at $3 minimum each)
> and get a bulk mailing license?  This is the exact reason electronic mail
> and computer bulletin boards are popular means for distributing personal-
> computer public domain software.

Provided, of course, that you aren't paying for them.  1000 floppies at
$3 each is about three months of our phone bills.  Given an organized
mailing scheme, the floppies could be swapped around for years.  No, I am
not actually seriously suggesting this as an alternative to Usenet, just
pointing out that Usenet is a very expensive way to swap Macintosh software.
When was the last time you contributed money to your nearest backbone site's
phone bills?  If the answer is "never", then maybe you should start pricing
floppies just in case.

> ...NO sites are using net.(religion, movies, etc.) in their 
> Unix-related work.  Why pick on a group that IS being used?

Because I've already done some heavy picking on the other groups you mention.
Specifically, we don't get them any more.  Incidentally, have you noticed
just what fraction of net.sources.mac is actually useful material?  It's
not too high, by the looks of it.  High time net.sources.mac was moderated.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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