Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: impending newsgroup cuts Message-ID: <1752@peora.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 08:23:03 EST Article-I.D.: peora.1752 Posted: Wed Oct 30 08:23:03 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 04:16:41 EST References: <472@spice.cs.cmu.edu> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 35 > If your criterion for eliminating a group is that it doesn't directly > 'support unix users' but that it has a high volume, you can start by > getting rid of the mega-flamage nets such as net.flame, net.politics, and > net.religion. I agree 100% with Thomas Newton's comments. The items distributed in net.sources.mac are useful computer software which is of benefit to individuals using the computers. This includes a very large number of people who also use Unix; consider that much of that software was *developed* on Unix, using the Unix "Sumacc" development system. This is much less dubious than several thousand postings on the use of toilet paper. Although it is a slippery-slope argument, one could as easily complain about all the software distributed in net.sources that only runs on a VAX, particularly the VMS software. That "irritates" *me* probably as much as net.sources.mac irritates Messrs. Ngai and Spencer. I think if you took a survey, you'd find that most sites of any size use net.sources.mac actively. However, I don't complain about the VAX software because I know some people have to clunk and chug along on slow uniprocessor VAXes :-) and the software is of use to them. Likewise I don't think one should complain about net.sources.mac just because one doesn't happen to have one. Obviously a lot of people do, otherwise so much software wouldn't be written and distributed for it. [Note: this message was followed-up from net.micro.mac, since I don't normally read net.news.group, although I have changed the distribution back to just net.news.group, where it belongs. My apologies if the same thing has already been said there.] -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: Ofc: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer Home: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jerpc!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642