john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) (11/22/85)
Alright, we've had a lot of discussion about backbones not wanting to carry junk. We've had a lot of mumbling about alternate pseudo-backbones for unpopular groups. Now is the time for action. As a start, I am willing to participate in an alternate USENET (as the Subject indicates, a subnet) for what used to net.bizarre. I propose the name ug.bizarre (which was suggested once before). If you are interested in participating (I would vastly prefer it if you would call frog, but if it would serve mail or other useful purposes, then we could call you), please send mail to ...!decvax!frog!john. As an added bonus, I will gateway the ARPANET list "info-cobol" onto ug.bizarre (if it gets off the ground), and will (by hand) gateway good ug.bizarre postings onto info-cobol (ITS Cobol maintainers* tend to be very picky about the quality of postings on info-cobol...). So, if you are interested, send me mail. If you think it is a stupid idea, if you are specifically disinterested, if you got food poisoning at lunch, keep your opinions (or onions) to yourself -- the whole point of this is that it need never cost you a cent! Say YES to ug.bizarre! * ITS Cobol maintainer: one who assists in maintaining the cobol-free status of the Incompatible Timesharing System. -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA Out of my way, I'm a scientist! War of the Worlds