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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.news.config,net.news.group,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: impending newsgroup cuts
Message-ID: <1243@ames.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 15:33:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 15:33:29 1985
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> >In article <6081@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> >>I am starting to feel really hostile towards net.sources.mac, especially
> >>since it's now #1 in volume...
> >
> >I would second that. The shareware postings are of course irritating
> >but even the non-commercial stuff bothers me. The way I see it,
> >there's a small group of mac users who have discovered this "free" way
> >of distributing software, namely USENET. It reminds me of the
> >proposals to form net.peace on the basis that USENET was a good way
> >for them to keep in touch. The common problem that I have with this is
> >that both these interests have nothing to do with the nature of the
> >network or its intended use, namely to support unix users. If the
> >volume were low net.sources.mac would be much more acceptable than
> >net.peace as there would be little question of liability. But the
> >volume is very high, the utility is very low, and I would love to get
> >rid of it.
> >

Some very useful software for interfacing Macs to UNIX, e.g., macget, macput, 
that window program, etc. have come over net.sources.mac.  The nature of
the net is that there's a lot of junk on it - but there's a few gems
hidden among the muck, and thats why we love it.  Let's keep net.sources.mac,
but maybe people could be a little more careful about postings.