Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ritcv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!ritcv!gig From: gig@ritcv.UUCP (Gordon Goodman) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Removing Macintosh related groups from the net. Message-ID: <9002@ritcv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 13:38:12 EST Article-I.D.: ritcv.9002 Posted: Wed Nov 6 13:38:12 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:21:21 EST References: <226@mplvax.UUCP> <6100@utzoo.UUCP> <1852@gatech.CSNET> <5758@amdcad.UUCP> <314@mit-eddie.UUCP> Reply-To: gig@ritcv.UUCP (Gordon Goodman) Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Lines: 21 In article <314@mit-eddie.UUCP> gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) writes: >Being one of the people who originally raised the rmgroup net.sources.* >issue, I'd like to clarify my position a little. > >I would like to see the net.sources.* groups become mod.sources.* >groups. I have no desire to see Mac groups taken off the net entirely, >since they provide a useful resource for Mac users, which there are a >lot of on the net I'm sure. All I want to see is a reduction in the >massive repostings, requests for repostings, postings of useless or >limited use sources, overly buggy sources, etc. from the net. As a regular viewer and user of net.sources.mac, I do agree that just cutting down on reposting will reduce the volume of this group enormously. If moderation can also cut down on posting of buggy sources, that would be excellent, too. If this helps the problem, it is worth a try...with a condition: the moderator should be knowledgeable about the mac and sympathetic to mac users. This group has provided many people with useful tools, even when the source was not posted. Gordon Goodman Rochester Institute of Technology