bp@nyit.UUCP (Bruce Perens) (11/16/85)
> Like the Mormons of eld, the OS-9 contingent keeps finding new homes > on the Usenet and then being chased out. I'd like to chase them out > of net.micro.68k I'd like to create a mod.os9 or a net.<something>.os9 . I'd like to know if the backbone administrators would feel better with a moderated newsgroup, or if a net... group is OK for a medium-load newsgroup. I think a moderated newsgroup would be to the advantage those who are interested in OS-9, as the moderated groups aren't subject to the same pressure some un-moderated newsgroups are feeling from the backbone administrators. And moderated groups don't move flames like the one David Kosower recently posted to these groups (see <500@harvard.ARPA>). OS-9 devotees, is a moderated group OK with you? OS-9 is important because it is a smaller, cleaner alternative to UNIX. There are lots of applications where UNIX would be overkill, and OS-9 fits nicely. And the small OS-9 systems that run on hardware like the CoCo are great learning tools - where else can you get a system with C, a UNIX-like environment, and an OS that's easy to modify for under $1000. OS-9 news is important to me. I am volunteering to moderate an OS-9 newsgroup if the consensus of the OS-9 devotees and the backbone administrators is that such a newsgroup should be created. Bruce Perens NYIT Computer Graphics Laboratory {decvax,seismo}!philabs!nyit!bp allegra!sbcs!nyit!bp nyit!bp%suny-sb.CSNet@CSNet-Relay.ARPA 516-686-7644 US Mail: NYIT Computer Graphics Lab. P.O. Box 170 Old Westbury, N.Y. 11568