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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Removing Macintosh related groups from the net.
Message-ID: <5758@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 02:34:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 02:34:32 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 08:18:06 EST
References: <226@mplvax.UUCP> <6100@utzoo.UUCP> <1852@gatech.CSNET>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <1852@gatech.CSNET> royt@gatech.UUCP (Roy M Turner) writes:
>It's been pointed out before, but bears repeating:  why get rid of a
>newsgroup that serves a useful purpose (all right, not to everyone, but *I*
>don't find the Unix newsgroups that useful, either, most of the time, so
>there!), and keep drivel like net.origins, net.flame, etc., etc.,

Because this site runs Unix, we have a charter to support Unix and if we
ever had to, we could argue that net.unix-wizards helps us do so. No
such argument applies to the Mac. Hey, if you like the Mac so much, why
not run your own network on it? And who's to say net.flame will be kept?

Let me lay some numbers on you. In the past two weeks, there were nearly
900K of net.sources.mac. Most (all?) of it binaries and totally useless
to the Unix users at this site. n.s.m is the biggest group by far, 50%
bigger than the next largest group. That is why we are picking on it first,
instead of net.flame. But that doesn't mean I think net.flame is worth
keeping, just that n.s.m is where the big reduction in phone bills is.

Don't talk about n.s.m in the same breath as other newsgroups, it is far
and away the biggest pig.
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