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From: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: GOODBYE net.sources.mac
Message-ID: <257@stl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 07:58:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 07:58:41 1985
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In article <7783@ucla-cs.ARPA> alex@ucla-cs.UUCP (Alex Quilici) writes:
>i'll support net.sources.mac only when i can post and distribute unix-based
>source code for profit on a network of macintoshes.

But as you're not supposed to use USENET for personal profit that ain't allowed
either.  So there!

>let's put the UNIX back into USENET.

If you want a UNIX-only net then ALL groups should go other than net.unix.*
ones.   That would save a lot of money - and also make the net useless to many
of us.  If the net exists to serve it's present users then it should support
any area of interest pertaining to computer science or the interests of people
in that field (which may well include their leisure interests), so long as that
interest is sufficiently widespread for those who pay the bills to feel it is
justified.   So argue that the Mac is too obscure and little used to justify
the net carrying info/programs for it if you like (it's a view I would strongly
oppose!), but don't say "If it's not UNIX then it's not USENET".

You might like to know that in Europe, where each site pays a share of the
backbone sites' data transmission costs, groups net.jokes, net.politics,
net.pets... etc. are not considered worth paying for and so are not imported
from seismo (nor is net.wine, unfortunately!), but net.mac.sources is.