Xref: utzoo news.admin:7786 news.groups:15019 comp.os.vms:19963 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sci34hub!gary From: gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: New newsgroup hierarchy Summary: Boy, I blew it on this one.... Message-ID: <413@sci34hub.UUCP> Date: 25 Nov 89 00:43:56 GMT References: <1618.25614348@mccall.uucp> <1694.2569212f@mccall.uucp> Lines: 35 In article <1694.2569212f@mccall.uucp>, tp@mccall.uucp writes: > In article <409@sci34hub.UUCP>, gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston) writes: > > [ ... erronious conclusions and premature objections deleted .... ] > [ ... rebuttal to my misconceptions deleted as well .... ] > Terry Poot (800)255-2762, in Kansas (913)776-4041 > The McCall Pattern Company, 615 McCall Rd., Manhattan, KS 66502, USA > UUCP: rutgers!ksuvax1!mccall!tp Internet: tp%mccall@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu I owe my apologies to Mr. Poot, for the erronious conclusions I jumped to (right before jumping on his posting) and to the net for the amount of bandwidth I've caused to be wasted unnecessarily. A later posting from him clarified things a great deal, and I realized that I'd made a big mistake. I've acknowledged this to two or three people via email, and will probably (deservedly) receive a few more flames of various levels. I understand (after reading his second posting) that his purpose is not to take advantage of Usenet, and that he (and others) had tried to convince the VMS people to start out under a Usenet group, and been met with disfavor. While there is always some competitiveness between two camps of anything, there's a pretty large split between UNIX and VMS users/admins. I suspect that a hardware manufacturer fans the flames in this split a little, but that doesn't excuse my comments. Now that I know what Mr. Poot is doing, I have no objections to his plans. In the event that this company ends up with any VMS equipment, or I start feeding a VMS site, I see no reason that I would not carry VMSnet if the users want it. -- Gary Heston { uunet!sci34hub!gary } System Mismanager SCI Technology, Inc. OEM Products Department (i.e., computers) Hestons' First Law: I qualify virtually everything I say.