gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart WDS ) (10/30/85)
Attention Fellow Mac Users:
There have been recent discussion in net.news and net.news.group about
removing net.sources.mac because of its high volume (a.k.a. cost!) and
small audience.
Gene Spafford has suggested that we use a moderated group to reduce the
amount of reposts and "useless" postings. If it comes down to having
no net.sources.mac or nothing, I would be happy to moderate a group
for mac sources. (I just hope it doesn't come to that!)
To the weenies that want to turn net.sources.mac off:
FLAME ON *******
First, USENET isn't for UNIX only discussions. The argument is BS!!!
If that were the case, then we would only have net.unix, net.unix-wizards
and perhaps a few others.
Second, the audience for net.sources.mac is "potentially" very large.
A number of univerisities on this net have a substantial commitment to Macs.
Just because you don't own or use a Mac does not mean that others don't!
Third, If you or your site does not want to take *any* news group, that is
your options. Simply inform your upstream sites not to send it to you and
tell you downstream sites to get it from someone else!
FLAME OFF *******
Mac people, this is your chance to get involved. If net.sources.mac goes away,
you can't say that you were not warned! Please subscribe to net.news(.group)
and make you opinions known!
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George Erhart at AT&T Bell Laboratories Columbus, Ohio
614-860-4021 {ihnp4,cbosgd}!cbdkc1!gwe