david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) (01/25/88)
In article <208@teletron.UUCP> andrew@teletron.UUCP (Andrew Scott) writes: >In article <1590@ethos.UUCP>, gary@ethos.UUCP (Gary J. Smith) writes: >> In article <1285@edison.GE.COM> rja@edison.GE.COM (rja) writes: >>> Since there are active unix-pc newsgroups in the alternate newsgroups, >>>and a lot of material is cross-posted between unix-pc.* and comp.sys.att, >>>why not MOVE unix-pc.* to comp.sys.att.pc? >> >> - Only people interested in the 3B1 would need to carry >> the group and pay for the phone time in transmitting >> the group. This is getting a little bit old From a technical standpoint there is no reason to require that unix-pc.all be a seperate hierarchy in order that people with small machines only get that stuff. The news software will allow (and has allowed for a very very long time) you to have only one or very few groups on your system. But you have to coordinate with your feeding site. You have to tell them to have a sys line like: us:world,na,usa,state,city,!all,comp.sys.att:: (I may have a detail or two wrong, but the basic idea is to turn off everything, then turn on selected newsgroups). Now ... that's the technical standpoint. There's also the social aspects of it. THe unix-pc net was one of the first of the alternate nets and in itself is an experiment. That it has lived so long is a good sign, but I also feel it might be starving a little bit because of not enough people. Possibly if it were going to come into the mainstream there'd be a wider audience and some interesting things could come of it. But if the unix-pc people were to instead promote the spread of the newsgroups (like, offering feeds to anybody and everybody and so forth) we could achieve the same effect without having to go mainstream. We're able to take new connections for news/mail feeds. But if there's major amount of traffic involved you'd have to call us... I'm waiting on making a widespread announcement to that effect for our trailblazer's to arrive... >As far as moving the groups goes, I'm in favor of it. I'm still not sure. I don't see any compelling reason to change things. >I don't see what makes >the UNIX pc so special that it deserves it's own high level newsgroup set. >No other system in the comp.sys.* groups is treated that way. Why not? >$ make sense >Make: Don't know how to make sense. Stop. So, STOP making sense! -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <david@ms.uky.edu> <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- It takes more than a good memory to have good memories.