mark@gizzmo.UUCP (mark hilliard) (01/20/88)
>In article <3788@islenet.UUCP> richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes: > >>After getting a large enough number of favorable responses from the >>net in support of such a move, one or more news admins could add a >>line like the following to their /usr/lib/news/aliases file: >> >>unix-pc.general comp.sys.att NO!! I agree with gary@ethos on this. The unix-pc groups are to important to be swallowed up. If the main news sites want to start carrying our private groups that is fine by me, but I DO NOT LIKE THE OPTION LISTED ABOVE. My own system (gizzmo) has become a rather large node on the private net (15 systems) and I plan on keeping it that way. I am ALWAYS glad to feed new sites the private groups as most of the other unix-pc sites are. -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: {mhuxu,u1100a}-----\ Mark Hilliard seismo!rochester!kodak!gizzmo!mark N2HHR {ethos,fthood}-----/
emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Ted H. Emigh) (01/20/88)
>In article <3788@islenet.UUCP> richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes: >After getting a large enough number of favorable responses from the >net in support of such a move, one or more news admins could add a >line like the following to their /usr/lib/news/aliases file: >unix-pc.general comp.sys.att NO!!!! Why "fix" something that isn't broken. The disadvantages greatly outnumber the advantages. Remember that there are people in the unix-pc network with 20MB disks ...TOTAL... Since other good points have been made, I would like to mention only one other. In the year that we have been connected to unix-pc, I have NEVER seen a discussion in the newsgroups about inappropriate postings (except for a discussion about security), or long messages complaining about how much traffic there is, or any of the garbage that goes as standard fare on usenet. I'll add ncsugn as a site that is willing to have unix-pc connections if someone can't get one. -- Ted H. Emigh, Dept. Genetics and Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC uucp: mcnc!ncsuvx!ncsugn!emigh internet: emigh%ncsugn.ncsu.edu BITNET: NEMIGH@TUCC @ncsuvx.ncsu.edu:emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu