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From: cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: comp.sys.3b1??
Keywords: comp.sys.3b1
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Date: 20 Nov 90 00:35:42 GMT
References: <1990Nov1.080516.14051@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <594@lock60.UUCP> <234@zebra.UUCP>
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In article <234@zebra.UUCP> vern@zebra.UUCP (Vernon C. Hoxie) writes:
>In article <594@lock60.UUCP>, mhw@lock60.UUCP (Mark H. Weber) writes:
>> 
>> I visit news.groups occasionally, and have a copy of the current mainstream
>> newsgroup creation guidelines. I would be willing to shepherd the group(s) 
>> through the tortuous path of newsgroup creation. I have a well-connected
>> site, and would be willing to collect the votes.
>
>	Last week dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US also offered to take a
>poll.  I suggest you two combine your efforts and repeat your requests
>for a straw poll every other day or so for two weeks.

Well, I'm for it.  And I think I represent a fairly significant, if mostly
silent, community: people who don't have news on their unixpcs, but read it
at work.  It's pretty difficult to persuade a sysadmin to carry an obscure
hierarchy if you're the only one who wants it.  And, because of phone-line,
diskspace, and financial limitations, I can't set up news on my own machine.
	Let me ask another question:  Is there anyone out there who gets
unix-pc.* but couldn't get comp.sys.3b1 if it was created?  If not, it's
clearly time to switch.  Having a separate hierarchy for an obsolete,
quasi-orphaned machine is killing mosquitoes with an H-bomb.

		-Curtis

"I tried living in the real world
 Instead of a shell
 But I was bored before I even began." - The Smiths