Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!gds From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Removing Macintosh related groups from the net. Message-ID: <314@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 21:13:15 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.314 Posted: Mon Nov 4 21:13:15 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Nov-85 04:26:49 EST References: <226@mplvax.UUCP> <6100@utzoo.UUCP> <1852@gatech.CSNET> <5758@amdcad.UUCP> Organization: MIT Lusers and Hosers Inc., Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 24 Being one of the people who originally raised the rmgroup net.sources.* issue, I'd like to clarify my position a little. I would like to see the net.sources.* groups become mod.sources.* groups. I have no desire to see Mac groups taken off the net entirely, since they provide a useful resource for Mac users, which there are a lot of on the net I'm sure. All I want to see is a reduction in the massive repostings, requests for repostings, postings of useless or limited use sources, overly buggy sources, etc. from the net. Is that so much to ask? If I thought that net.sources.* could achieve this I wouldn't have sent out my posting, but I have observed the traffic in net.sources.* over the past year and a half and come to the conclusion that a lot of it can be cut out. Modration accomplishes that goal if the posters themselves refuse to cut the traffic down. If there is a site which has no use for Mac software I suggest they just don't pass it anymore and sites which want it will have to get Mac stuff from other sites. No rmgroups need to be issued in this case. -- It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under. Greg Skinner (gregbo) {decvax!genrad, allegra, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds gds@mit-eddie.mit.edu