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From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: New group net.vms - VOTE
Message-ID: <1190@gatech.CSNET>
Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 18:45:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 18:45:30 1985
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References: <220@stl.UUCP> <336@harvard.ARPA> <632@rtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
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In article <632@rtech.UUCP> jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) writes:
>> I don't think that net.vms is really necessary, and would suggest that
>> netters vote no. The info-vax mailing list is almost completely about
>> VMS and is gatewayed into Usenet in the fa.info-vax group. Since I am
>> on the ARPA net I get the postings to info-vax directly, but I
>> subscribe to fa.info-vax as well. The longest delay between seeing
>> something in my mail and seeing it on info-vax was about three days.
>---
>This is fine for those on Arpanet, but those of us on uucpnet can't post
>to fa.info-vax.  I vote for the creation of net.vms.


There is next to no demand on the Usenet for a net group devoted to
VMS.  At least, the once or twice before that this was discussed it
was never possible to get more than about 5 people interested.  That's
all I've seen this time, too.

The people that gateway most of the "fa" groups are about to convert
them to two-way "mod" groups so that people on the Usenet can respond
(something that is not easily done now with the "fa" groups).  Thus,
there is soon going to be no reason for a net.vms group.


-- 
Gene "3 months and counting" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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