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From: paul@greipa.UUCP (Paul A. Vixie)
Newsgroups: net.decus
Subject: Re: Why net.decus won't work
Message-ID: <401@greipa.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 13:53:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: greipa.401
Posted: Sat Sep 28 13:53:10 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 07:46:31 EDT
References: <220@stl.UUCP> <196@graffiti.UUCP> <398@greipa.UUCP> <406@brl-sem.ARPA>
Reply-To: paul@greipa.UUCP (Paul A. Vixie)
Organization: Genstar Rental Electronics, Palo Alto, Ca.
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Summary: 

In article <406@brl-sem.ARPA> ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) writes:
>> This group (net.decus) seems oriented more toward DECUS members and their
>> activities (large symposiums several times a year, mostly).  It is an
>> unlikely place to find technical information, and even if it were: VMS is
>> not the only operating system DEC supports.
>
>Wonderful, you'll next want us to abolish net.unix in favor of net.usenix.

	What?  How the heck did you get THAT out of my posting?
	I'm suggesting that net.decus is inappropriate to technical postings
	because it relates to the user's society, not the machines.  Using
	net.decus as a technical group would be EXACTLY the same as using
	net.usenix as one; this is EXACTLY WHAT I AM AGAINST.
	Did you read my posting before you sent your followup?
	Was I unclear (if so, insert profuse apoligia here) ?

>> And besides, info-vax isn't really VMS specific either.
>
>It damn well is!  If you've actually read it there hasn't been a single
>non VMS relate topic on it in a long time.  I used to try to read it
>for VAX hardware oriented information, but alas, they don't discuss it
>there.   INFO-VAX really is INFO-VMS.

	No arguments.  The groups is being used as "INFO-VMS"; is was not
	created for that purpose.  Besides, as I've already stated, posting
	to fa.* groups from Usenet is pretty unreliable.  I want a Usenet
	group gatewayed <-> ARPA: this way if ARPA eats Usenet postings
	at least the Usenet people will still see them.

	Did you ever post hardware-specific questions or information to
	info-vax?  Were you flamed for it?  I think not...
-- 

	Paul Vixie
	{decwrl dual pyramid}!greipa!paul


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