Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdimage.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!busch!wucs!seismo!hao!noao!amd!amdcad!amdimage!cmoore From: cmoore@amdimage.UUCP (chris moore) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.adm,net.news.config Subject: Re: Removing Macintosh related groups from the net. Message-ID: <706@amdimage.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 16:39:32 EST Article-I.D.: amdimage.706 Posted: Wed Nov 6 16:39:32 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 06:50:12 EST References: <226@mplvax.UUCP> <6100@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: cmoore@amdimage.UUCP (chris moore) Organization: AMDIMAGE, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 34 Xref: watmath net.news.group:4368 net.news.adm:412 net.news.config:734 In article <6100@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >> [net.sources.mac is highly relevant to my work, therefore...] >> I have to strongly protest any attempt to limit mac.sources in any way until >> it can be shown that there are no other alternatives. Net.micro.mac and Net. >> mac.sources are useful, productive and legitimate groups and will remain so >> certainly as long as there people on the net investigating the use of the >> Macintosh in the UNIX WORK PLACE. > >Have you considered mailing floppies as an alternative? It's a LOT cheaper, >and it means that the bills are paid by you rather than by others. You are >ignoring the fact that many of the sites paying the bills are *not* using >the Macintosh in Unix-related work. It sounds like interesting stuff, but >why exactly should I pay for voluminous newsgroups related to it? >-- > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry I missed the beginning of this discussion, but I have to disagree with Henry's comment. Sure, there are a lot of sites not using Macintoshes, (including mine), but there are also a lot of sites not interested in religion, sports, graphics, telecommunications, or dozens of other subjects which are supported by the network. Maybe I've missed something here, but I don't see why the Macintosh group should be singled out when there are a lot of other groups that I don't care about, but I'm paying bills to move them. -- Of course we have backup tapes. Do you want last year or the year before? Chris Moore (408) 749-4692 UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!amdimage!cmoore