From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:UNKNOWN:G:antares
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Queries on the network.
Article-I.D.: populi.442
Posted: Wed Nov  3 16:56:51 1982
Received: Thu Nov  4 06:30:08 1982

Many thanks to Alan Watt for posting his `Everything you wanted
to know . . .' article.  I have initiated a number of queries
recently and I appreciate the information.  However, it does not
seem to me to be an abuse of the network to ask for information.
The /usr/group catalog cannot possibly be the last word on 
what's available in the Unix software world, especially for 
esoteric or specialized things.  At first I was posting to the
`net.general' group until I realized there was a `net.wanted'
group.  If people don't want to help others out with information,
they don't need to read `net.wanted'.  As for efficiency, I've
found the network to be more efficient than getting information
through the mail or calling coast-to-coast.  It might not be a
bad idea for vendors on the network to establish some new 
newsgroup to introduce products.

						Harry Weeks

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