From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!mcvax!ukc!mjb
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Re: Getting tired of the fate of net.general
Article-I.D.: ukc.3302
Posted: Tue Apr 26 00:29:21 1983
Received: Thu May 19 07:42:24 1983

Now slow down you lot...
I read net.general and I'm in Europe (at least that's what the atlas
and the goverment both say) so to say that Europe isn't getting net.general
is wrong.
net.general reaches the UK via mcvax and then gets passed on to every site
linked into ukc. (Some sites ONLY take net.general.) So it isn't the
European gateway turning it off, and the UK gateway isn't either.

that's the end of the hard facts, now for my personal opinion...

In the states you've got it lucky, USENET is established and known to pass
useful information around - which is how you justify your link into it.
Over here, even though we invented democracy,  networks like USENET are only
just starting up, and we have to fight to get the money for the phone calls,
modems, diallers etc. The boss then looks to see what he gets for his money
and finds he's been offered car rides to Chicago, and does he know if fred
still works at Bell? Fortunately I have an understanding boss, but some sites
don't and that is why they are complaining.

So what do I think should happen to net.general?
Keep it, don't rename it, but think about what you're posting.
Most of what we don't want to see fits into other newsgroups better,
and in any case gets complained about by Americans as well!

	Mike Bayliss	Kent University, England (which is part of Europe)

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