Xref: utzoo news.admin:7713 news.groups:14865 comp.mail.uucp:3783 comp.os.vms:19827 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,comp.mail.uucp,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: New newsgroup hierarchy Message-ID: <7072@ficc.uu.net> Date: 21 Nov 89 17:46:56 GMT References: <1618.25614348@mccall.uucp> <1989Nov17.174318.21963@world.std.com> <409@sci34hub.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 24 In article <409@sci34hub.UUCP> gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston) writes: > My gut feeling is that somebody who already has the equivalent of > most of this in place (in the comp groups) wants the 90% (guesstimate) > of us who don't run VMS to support the 10% who do with a significant > part of our resources. Oh, balderdash. If they wanted to do that they would create the VMSNET DIGEST and post it to comp.os.vms. They are explicitly requiring people who want the group to find a feed and subscribe to it. Just so long as they don't get pissed off and throw a fit if people start talking about UNIX in it, the way Richard Stallman does if you mention the a-word in gnu.*. Or act surprised when someone starts complaining when it leaks into their site. > Further, this is USENET, not VMS-SUPPORTED-BY-REAL-OS-NET. No, it's VMSNET. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "I agree 0bNNNNN would have been nice, however, and I sure wish X3J11 had taken time off from rabbinical hairsplitting to add it." -- Tom Neff