Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wjvax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!pesnta!wjvax!ron
From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: STARGATE (READ THIS!)
Message-ID: <333@wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 22:04:43 EST
Article-I.D.: wjvax.333
Posted: Wed Jan 23 22:04:43 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Jan-85 21:18:30 EST
References: <2226@nsc.UUCP>
Organization: Watkins Johnson, San Jose, Calif.
Lines: 20

I agree Usenet is broken.  I spend what seems like half my
useful life just keeping things going here at wjvax.  Doing
Usenet work on a netwide basis would be *at least* a full time
job.  I may be naive, but is there any company/organization
that pays you to do this stuff?  Must I continue to hold two
jobs, one unpaid?  (You can consider this a general question.
I think the chances border on certainty that the big time net
people like lauren, chuq, et. al. spend more time on this stuff
than I could possibly imagine.)

I just can't believe that the 'free' net would ever go away.
If the worst possible thing happens, and Usenet becomes technical
only, all moderated, and almost impossible to post to, a new, chaotic,
unmoderated net would emerge somewhere else.

Of course, I'm also predicting that Beta will someday displace VHS... (:-)
-- 

	Ron Christian  (Watkins-Johnson Co.  San Jose, Calif.)
	{pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix}!wjvax!ron