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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.news.config,net.news.group,net.micro.mac,net.sources.mac
Subject: Re: impending newsgroup cuts
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 12:04:06 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 12:04:06 1985
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> Mr Spencer, I'm sure you have the best interests of the net at heart

Actually, I have the survival of the local section of the net at heart.
The bills are becoming unsupportable; the volume of traffic must come down.
(No, compress and 2400 baud are not enough -- we already use both.  The
net has demonstrated a remarkable ability to outgrow such temporary fixes,
and in fact to grow faster than the rate of introduction of such fixes.)

> 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...

I am willing to believe this.  Are you willing to prove it by using groups
like net.sources.mac to publish things that are of use to non-Mac users,
i.e. NOT JUST MAC-SPECIFIC BINARIES?!?  There is little evidence of this to
date.

I agree that net.sources.mac directly supports the work-related efforts of
many people, a fair number of them involved with Unix as well.  What I don't
believe, I'm afraid, is that the rest of us are getting a fair return on it.
Yes, the net helps you:  what have you done to return the favor?
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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