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From: cmoore@amdimage.UUCP (chris moore)
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Subject: Re: Removing Macintosh related groups from the net.
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 16:39:32 EST
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In article <6100@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> [net.sources.mac is highly relevant to my work, therefore...]
>> I have to strongly protest any attempt to limit mac.sources in any way until 
>> it can be shown that there are no other alternatives. Net.micro.mac and Net.
>> mac.sources are useful, productive and legitimate groups and will remain so 
>> certainly as long as there people on the net investigating the use of the 
>> Macintosh in the UNIX WORK PLACE.
>
>Have you considered mailing floppies as an alternative?  It's a LOT cheaper,
>and it means that the bills are paid by you rather than by others.  You are
>ignoring the fact that many of the sites paying the bills are *not* using
>the Macintosh in Unix-related work.  It sounds like interesting stuff, but
>why exactly should I pay for voluminous newsgroups related to it?
>-- 
>				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

I missed the beginning of this discussion, but I have to disagree
with Henry's comment.  Sure, there are a lot of sites not using
Macintoshes, (including mine), but there are also a lot of sites
not interested in religion, sports, graphics, telecommunications, or
dozens of other subjects which are supported by the network. Maybe
I've missed something here, but I don't see why the Macintosh group
should be singled out when there are a lot of other groups that
I don't care about, but I'm paying bills to move them.


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 year before?

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