snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle) (11/10/88)
In article <18@jove.dec.com> vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes: |2. USENET is a lousy way to get real live newswire-type information broadcast; | in particular, this topic has been discussed at length in news.admin and | news.announce.important as well as comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes. Forwarding a | piece of AP News is almost always silly, since news takes a few days to | get everywhere -- when Challenger blew up, 20 people logged in and typed | a short message about it. I read about it in the next day's paper before | I saw any of the USENET messages on the topic. I disagree. On numerous occasions I have first learned of urgent news through usenet. [ And I seriously doubt that I am better connected than decwrl :-) ] For most of us, news items like the Challenger disaster are not urgent, there is nothing we can do about them. In other cases, like the current worm problem, or a product alteration/contamination problem like the infamous extra-strength Dielenol case from a few years ago, the word should out on every reasonable network. _____ /_____\ Snoopy /_______\ |___| tektronix!tekecs!sopwith!snoopy |___| sun!nosun!illian!sopwith!snoopy