[net.general] VMS newsgroup -- resubmission of mangled article

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)  
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     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