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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.news.config,net.news.group,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: impending newsgroup cuts
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 18:02:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 18:02:06 1985
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I for one would find it extremely painful not to have access to the 
Macintosh software that is being posted.  My productivity in my job
is greatly enhanced by it.  I can live without the games, but I would
have a very hard time living without the utilities and other useful
software that I can get in NO OTHER WAY.

Some are arguing that the stuff posted to net.sources.mac doesn't
have anything to do with UNIX and that therefore net.sources.mac
should get the axe.  I strongly disagree.  In the first place, 
95%* of what is posted to usenet doesn't have anything to do with
UNIX.  And in the second, a larger proportion of the stuff
in net.sources.mac *does* relate directly to UNIX (through the
use of Macs and their peripherals in UNIX environments) than is
true of most newsgroups.  So I just don't buy this idea.

Yes, phone bills are high.  Yes, this is a burden on backbone
sites.  Yes, we should find a way to improve the situation.  But
let's do it rationally, not by throwing out the baby with the
bathwater.

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*  Rhetorical statistic :-)

-- 
Glend.	I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hot.	Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you
	do call for them?    --  Henry IV Pt. I, III, i, 53

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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