Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sco!davidbe
From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Is USENET stagnating?
Message-ID: <256@scorn.sco.COM>
Date: 31 Oct 89 20:27:46 GMT
References: <40056@looking.on.ca>
Sender: news@sco.COM
Reply-To: davidbe@sco.COM (mr x for halloween)
Organization: The Seventy Cat Orchestra
Lines: 30


news.admin's own brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) said:
-
-People have forgotten what USENET should be about.  USENET is about
-*doing* things in computer networking.  Not thinking up arguments why
-people shouldn't do them.

[ Breaking out of my Halloween costume temporarily... ]

Where does it say what Usenet is/should be about?  Because I don't agree 
with what you defined it as.

To me Usenet is about communication and interaction; not necissarily on
the immediate level, but certainly on a time responsive level (i.e. current
events *can* be discussed).  All else serves this purpose: newsgroup naming,
bandwith discussions, meta-discussions, even flames and newgroup/rmgroup
wars (to some extent).  

If the software is old, so what?  The messages (in many, although I'll admit
not in most cases) are not old.

Usenet is the message, not the medium.

--
     David Bedno, Systems Administrator, The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
   Email: davidbe@sco.COM / ..!{uunet,sun,ucbvax!ucscc,gorn}!sco!davidbe 
  Phone: 408-425-7222 x5123 Disclaimer: Speaking from SCO but not for SCO.  

      "History is an angel, being blown backwards into the future."
							- Laurie Anderson