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From: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright)
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Subject: Re: New group net.vms - VOTE
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 18:57:19 EDT
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In article <336@harvard.ARPA> sasaki@harvard.UUCP (Marty sasaki) 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.

If someone as well known for useful contributions on VMS as Marty is suggesting
that netters vote NO to net.vms, I'd better take the opportunity to put in
a plea for "YES".  So far the voting is pretty strongly on the "YES" side,
and I hope it keeps that way!. Most replies come from UUCP sites rather than 
ARPANET ones; what I think many people with easy access to the ARPANET 
do not realise is that many netters cannot - or cannot easily - access the
ARPANET gateways, so cannot post to fa.info-vax.   I've been told where to 
mail my submissions, but according to netdir@mcvax (the main Eurpopean 
gateway to the US) mcvax does not know that site, so my mail gets 'bounced'.
I'm no net expert, but probably know at least as much as the average net user 
about how it all works, so I'm sure there are many others who are sure they 
can't post to fa.info-vax.    Also, because of the name many would not have 
realised that it was almost all about VMS.

It has been suggested that net.vms and fa.info-vax (or info-vms if info-vax gets
split into 2) should be 2-way gatewayed with net.vms, so people on both
nets get the full benefit of the items posted.  If this is possible it
seems a good idea.  

So you USENET users (and any ARPANET users who wonder why they don't get 
much help on VMS from the USENET people) - keep those YES votes coming in!