Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-sem.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-sem!ron From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.sources,net.micro,net.decus,net.wanted Subject: Re: Why net.decus won't work Message-ID: <406@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 21:08:17 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-sem.406 Posted: Thu Sep 26 21:08:17 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 07:58:53 EDT References: <220@stl.UUCP> <196@graffiti.UUCP> <398@greipa.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.news.group:3853 net.sources:3529 net.micro:12146 net.decus:186 net.wanted:7251 > Anyway, you raise a good point: net.decus is a group dedicated to DEC users; > why not use it? Well: DECUS = Digital Equipment Corporation User's Society. > 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. Even for the VAX there's VaxELAN; for the > PDP-11 there are at least 10 different OS flavors. Wonderful, you'll next want us to abolish net.unix in favor of net.usenix. > 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. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com