Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!inuxc!ihnp4!qantel!dual!mordor!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.news.config,net.news.group,net.micro.mac Subject: Re: impending newsgroup cuts Message-ID: <17@utastro.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 18:02:06 EST Article-I.D.: utastro.17 Posted: Fri Nov 1 18:02:06 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 23:47:45 EST References: <472@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <6090@utzoo.UUCP> <227@mplvax.UUCP> <16@utastro.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 32 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. ------ * 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) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (UUCP) bill@astro.UTEXAS.EDU. (Internet)