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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: spaf's note on fa->mod groups
Message-ID: <453@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 13:54:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 13:54:11 1985
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Now I am pissed.

SPAF has decided to groups for hitherto unannounced and by his own arguments
undetermined need ARPA->USENET links.

What is especially distressing is that he has done this to a WRONG
mailing list.  The GOULDBUGS mailing list is for BUGS.  Specific BUG
reports like 4BSD-BUGS@BERKELEY.  It is a mailing list which is a direct
feed in to the software support department at GOULD. It is not for
general net.whining about GOULD processors. However, without any
preliminary announcement, nor entry in the announcement groups, he has
the intent of setting up "mod.computers.gould" to interact with
GOULDBUGS.

Sorry, but this is wrong.  If Mr. Spafford is going to continue to pull this
kind of ploy, he had damn well better do a lot to inform the users of the
nature of the groups that he is setting up.  How about a copy of
INTEREST-GROUPS.TXT (which seems to be the master plan from which he is
working) annotated to indicate how the names have been twisted, and sent
out with the other instructional messages.  Hopefully there is a live
moderator on this one instead of an automatic program because if the
USENET gets out of hand, the link to the real list that feeds GOULD will
stop.  How does Mr. Spafford intend to cope with a mailing list that may
be establish for GOULDS in general?  Do you know why there is no such
group now?  For the same reason the USENET uses as a criteria, there is
no traffic demand for such a group.

-Ron