Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:7590 comp.sys.3b1:1411 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ra!uvaarpa!murdoch!turing!jon From: jon@turing.acs.virginia.edu (Jon Gefaell) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.3b1 Subject: Re: unix-pc rmgroup due next week Message-ID: <1991May15.145918.13958@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 15 May 91 14:59:18 GMT References: <100166@becker.UUCP> <53168@rphroy.UUCP> <100419@becker.UUCP> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 51 In article <100419@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) writes: >In article <53168@rphroy.UUCP> tkacik@hobbes.cs.gmr.com (Tom Tkacik CS/50) writes: >|In article <100166@becker.UUCP>, bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) writes: >||> In article <1991May10.194046.19312@bagend.uucp> jan@bagend.uucp (Jan >|Isley) writes: >||> |Remember the vote, folks? >||> | >||> |Per the vote, next week there will be another round of newgroup >||> |control messages for comp.sys.3b1 and comp.sources.3b1, followed >||> |by rmgroup control messages for the unix-pc groups. >||> >||> I've decided not to rmgroup these, in >||> case there's still folks who for some >||> reason wish to use them, for whatever >||> reasons they might have... >| >|I think that is mistake. The only reason for using them is to talk about >|the unix-pc. Since that is now done with comp.*.3b1, there is no reason to >|keep the groups. The only use they will get is the occasional pc unix >|question. They probably will not get their questions answered, as there will >|be few people reading those groups. There are already groups for that, >|and keeping the unix-pc groups will only confuse those new readers. > > > Nevertheless, I've decided that I don't > have the right to interfere with any of > those uses, as inefficient as it may be > viewed by anyone not using them... > > >-- > ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario >a /i/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu > `\o\-e UUCP: ...!utai!mnetor!becker!bdb > _< /_ "It's the death of the net as we know it (and I feel fine)" - R.A.M. I don't understand where this attitude is coming from... There was a VOTE and in keeping with that FORMAL vote, the old groups need to be removed. It is counterproductive to the goals and intents of the users of these groups that you, Mr. Becker, unilateraly decide (for no apparently good reason, by your admission) to throw a spanner in the work. RMGROUP THEM Please. Thank you. *sheesh* -- ____ Mr. Jeffersons Academical Village. \ / #include Flames to: hostmaster@Virginia.EDU \/ Terrestrial Coordinates: 38 04 06N / 79 03 53W Sic Semper Tyrannis