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From: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.sources,net.micro,net.decus,net.wanted
Subject: New group net.vms - VOTE
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 10:53:57 EDT
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Summary: Please vote YES/NO for net.vms
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[This item was originally posted in early August but is being re-posted as,
 perhaps due to the ukc UK backbone site holding news during a prolonged 
 system upgrade in August, it appears not to have gone beyond a few UK sites.   
 If you replied before, and are not jlm@611b,dan@dlvax2 or geoff@idec, 
 then please reply again as your mail did not reach me.]

There are many USENET sites which have VMS machines as well as UNIX, so
there is an increasing interest in VMS issues.  I therefore propose
(re-propose in fact, as it's been suggested before but not taken up)
the formation of a new group 
         	   net.vms

To justify a new group it is necessary to show that there is a specific
need not met by other groups, to show that there would be enough
postings to be useful, and to have a positive reponse to a vote for the
group's creation.

The volume of vms-related postings in groups such as net.sources,
net.wanted, net.micro, net.decus and even net.general seem to me to
demonstrate the first two criteria (who could claim that the series of
postings on clearing the screen in VMS would be of any interest to
non-VMS lovers ???).  Having VMS issues splattered over existing groups
is an annoyance both to people interested who have to read so many
groups, and even more, I am sure, to those who never want to go near
VMS but have to keep skipping VMS articles.

Another advantage - epecially now several postings are quite long
sources - would be that those sites with no VMS VAXen either locally or
downstream could drop vms-related postings.

If net.vms becomes successful then fa.info-vax could be gatewayed into it.

Now to the VOTE.   spaf@gatech has agreed to add net.vms IFF there is
sufficient support for it.  So VOTE NOW - by mail to me, I will count
results (+ summarise any useful comments) and report to spaf@gatech and
to the net.

*** Add new group  net.vms                YES | NO  ***

David Wright     dww@stl
		 ....seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!stl!dww