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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Yet another network tragedy (was Re: A Network Tragedy)
Message-ID: <35046@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 89 23:37:41 GMT
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Organization: Life is just a Fantasy novel played for keeps
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>chuqi's been he's about to leave for years.  as with the death of
>usenet, i'll believe it when i see it...   

Actually I have left many times, and always returned (usually to a smaller
subset. My net-reading is, actually, at an all-time low again as far as # of
groups. The *volume* of what I read isn't, because of the number of
messages. It's probably more or less constant -- as the net grows, the
number of groups drops....). 

I used to decry the forthcoming Death of the Net. I don't any more, because
it's not going to die. What the net has done (and continues to do) is mutate
and evolve to meet the needs of the various groups that use it. As different
groups grow and shrink, the net switches around to meet the needs. Whether
what the net does meets my needs (or the needs of any individual user) is
immaterial to the life or death of the net.

Remember, at one time, USENET was here primarily for the discussion of Unix.
Now, that's a fringe (as the Unix-first people found out when they tried to
kill off the PC and Mac groups a while back, only to find out they were
heavily outnumbered...). Things change....

-- 

Chuq Von Rospach <+> Editor,OtherRealms <+> Member SFWA/ASFA
chuq@apple.com <+> CI$: 73317,635 <+> [This is myself speaking. I am not Appl
Segmentation Fault. Core dumped.