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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Removing Macintosh related groups from the net.
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 21:13:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 21:13:15 1985
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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)
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