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From: richard@cs.ua.oz.au (Richard Siggs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Selling games on USENet - don't!
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Date: 2 Jul 90 04:09:29 GMT
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In article <1990Jun27.185759.8281@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>,
xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
|>
|>The latest news from Australia is that they just lost the entire alt.*
|>distribution (Can someone from Oz confirm?), including alt.sources.amiga;
|>comp.sys.amiga{,*} and comp.{binaries,sources}.amiga are right up there
|>at the top by volume of the remaining list of things that can be cut out
|>to save money; when we are allowing ourselves to look like wastrels, some
|>more sites, perhaps yours or one that feeds yours, may choose to drop the
|>Amiga groups.  All this _has_happened_ to the Amiga groups at least once
|>since they were founded and gained one of the largest volumes on the net.
|>Lots of sites dropped the Amiga groups when phone costs soared, and picked
|>them back up only when new networks and faster modem hardware provided
|>cheaper transmission routes.  Cheaper does not mean free, and the budgets
|>are starting to strain again.
|>
|>It only took publicity about a little complaint in the Houston Chronicle
|>to get sites all over the world to review their need for the alt groups;
|>many have dropped them in the few weeks since.  How much publicity do you
|>think the Amiga groups can withstand if we are being blatently inefficient
|>in our use of net resources?
|>
|>I only led you to the issue, I can't force you to think.  The "gimme"
|>generation is alive and well.
|>
	I can confirm for all of you. The administrators of AARNet (Australian
Academic Research Network) stopped all alt.sex.* & alt.drugs groups from
entering their network (which is the main/only backbone Aust. wide
network) at the link to Hawaii (in Melbourne Uni., Victoria).
	So, we've still got ALL the groups we proviously had, but alt.sex.* &
alt.drugs (ONLY) aren't getting any DIRECT posting (you can still
cross-post to these groups :-)!

	Well, there you have it..Just when you thought it was safe to look at
that gif....!

Richard Siggs			| "As the joys of Heaven are enjoyed by men,
Computer Science Dept.,		|  so shall the pains of Hell be suffered.
Adelaide University,		|  For they will be men still,
South Australia.		|  so they will act and feel as men."
ACSnet: richard@cs.ua.oz.au	|	- quote from the film "Bliss".