gordon@scgvaxd.UUCP (07/06/83)
(It has been called to my attention that this article was mangled in the transmission, thus I am re-posting it. Sorry about any duplication (our site has temporarily lost incoming news somewhere upstream, and it probably has something to do with this article being thrashed) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I like to fantasize that there are hundreds of VMS users out there secretly reading the netnews over Eunice or UUCP. There they are, hunched over their keyboards late at night, a 100-watt glow cast over intense, bloodshot eyes devouring the latest entries to SF-lovers and turning away unix-wizards, as usual (they keep meaning to take it off their subscription list, but it comforts them to read it occasionally). They sit facing the door; ready to pop into EDT at the slightest sign of the approach of a PWB colleague ("don't wanna give the impression that I am being converted or some such nonsense!"). Surely such anxiety is harmful. Just the eyestrain of their weekly reading must entitle them to additional workman's compensation. Can these people be helped? Only through care and an expanded sense of community belonging can these networms achieve a parity in status, so much deserved in the VAX world. Please help. Support a net.VMS newsgroup. (I also suggest a net.VMS.silly group for all those who would like to spend their time arguing merits of VMS vs. UNIX) By the way, I am a VMS user and proud of it. I LIKE VMS, and I LIKE USENET (and, for the record, many other UNIX utilities). I selfishly want the best of both worlds. VMS users (and others), let me know what you think of this. decvax!trw-unix!scgvaxd!engvax!gordon Gordon Howell Hughes Aircraft Space and Communications Group El Segundo, California (213) 615-9075