Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amd!dual!ames!eugene From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V5 #90 Message-ID: <806@ames.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 13:53:14 EST Article-I.D.: ames.806 Posted: Wed Feb 20 13:53:14 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Feb-85 14:30:06 EST References: <494@mordor.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 42 > From: Ron Tencati > > I vote for making a separate SPACE mailing list for those who want to > discuss ad infinitum about whether electric amplifiers will work in a > vacuum. How about INFO-SPACE-JUNK for them, and INFO-NASA for the rest > of us that wish to keep the list professional. > > Ron Tencati > JPL-VLSI > ------ [pilot light on] i had to comment on this on. [also, thank you to all who have sent letters, i am touched]. i vote against. i realize the description about the usenet/arpanet gatewaying has been described [i prefer the usenet interface even though i have arpa access. i think ele* amp*s requires a bit of tolerance on our part. i don't want to see an info-nasa because nasa does not represent to only view on the use of space. i am sorry if you cannot ignore mail [i use to have an account on the vax known as jpl-vlsi, so i know what you are doing to read the group]. because some of us represent the 'official' agency, there is a tendency for some to see "special dispensation" by default [unspoken]. i think the mear fact that i or other nasa people on this net biases some people from posting. that is one reason why i only wish to sit back for a while, since i have noticed changes on this net since i started flaming. hand is getting tired, so HAVE TOLERANCE. the volume on this news group is small, so this is possible. i learned the ropes by getting burned, and people informed so. nasa has few sits on either the arpanet [we're not part of the dod, so we don't get special dis*] or the uucpnet. i know one nasa official [not ted flinn] who used to read the net "until it was too filled with trash." thats okay, we are thinking about our own local newgroups for discussing work related issues like what goes on the space station, but this would bore most people. that's choice [to a degree, mind you]. --eugene miya NASA Ames Research Center {hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,vortex}!ames!aurora!eugene emiya@ames-vmsb.ARPA