weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) (06/12/88)
Over in news.admin, which seems to have become an ersatz news.misc since JJ, lots of people are announcing the death of USENET in the wake of AT&T's and other backbone's diminished support, calling for stuff like massive cutbacks and the like. Aw, phooey. AT&T can drop all the soc.*, rec.*, talk.* groups in the world for all I care. Trying to figure out e-mail might be a new pain for awhile, but I just expect more uunet connections to show up. The missing AT&T posters I will miss will be more than made up for by the missing posters that I won't miss. Other than that, who really cares? And I think complaints about binaries should just die permanently. Swallow your site's "I gotta have everything" pride and nuke them if you really can't stand it. Don't bitch and moan because some cretin out there likes to once a month post 500K revisions. As if you really depend on USENET for BBS-type software in the first place. Yeah, right. Besides, it sure would be funny as hell to watch comp.binary.* connectivity turn into a wrinkled prune. I don't see why some of the big boys in the backbone just don't go more commercial with their USENET feeds anyway. No, I take that back. Management would want to understand. Oh well. It's always something. ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720