Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cheviot.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cheviot!ncx From: ncx@cheviot.uucp (Lindsay F. Marshall) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: net.internat Message-ID: <471@cheviot.uucp> Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 05:40:09 EDT Article-I.D.: cheviot.471 Posted: Wed Oct 23 05:40:09 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 25-Oct-85 02:48:05 EDT Reply-To: ncx@cheviot.UUCP (Lindsay F. Marshall) Organization: U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Lines: 28 For the first time we have a group created to fulfill a real need and the netlords decide we cant have it!! SO there wasnt much discussion on the net (I actually saw more discussion on net.internat than I have for any of the other ludicrous and irrelevant newsgroups that have been created recently) so what - I bet there were more people at the Copenhagen meeting than there were votes for net.auto.tech or some such thing. Why waste money on transmitting votes about when you can arrange it better in person????? net.internat fills a critical need in the os world at this time and its about time that the US woke up to the fact there are other people and cultures out there. I think disguising bigotry by flaming about voting procedures is utterly despicable. As I said above we have to put up with ridiculous newsgroups so I dont see why the US shouldnt put up with something useful for a change. Yes, the net does seem to be full of flamers and cranks with very little technical content, but it is noticeable that there are very few (if any) flames from outside the US part of the net - the people in the real world out here cant afford the comms charges and try and keep it technical. So lets make a choice NOW - either we have a sensible net (and net.internat is certainly sensible) or we just forget it. I shall be ignoring the rmgroup for net.internat - I hope that most people will do the same. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lindsay F. Marshall, Computing Lab., U of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, UK ARPA : lindsay%cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa JANET : lindsay@uk.ac.newcastle.cheviot UUCP : !ukc!cheviot!lindsay -------------------------------------------------------------------------------