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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: INFO-MAC to be reactivated tonight (I was told)
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 04:38:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 04:38:16 1986
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I succeeded to reach Rich Alderman (alias INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA)
by phone this afternoon, and he indicated that he would start "moderating"
the accumulated messages *TONIGHT* again.  He indicated that this should
mean a veritable flood of messages over the next few days (which will
appear in the news-group "mod.computers.macintosh" shortly thereafter,
I suspect).

I won't repeat his explanation for the 2 months of silence as I don't
think I understood very well why he was unable to, at least, send out a
notice, explaining the problem, or answer the many queries and offers
of assistence that were sent to him.  I have hopes he will explain
this himself in his first message, and I expect that a lively discussion
will follow, to find ways to avoid a situation where a group will simply
"disappear" for such an extended time without any way of communicating
with the rest of the group.

When I think of those ARPAnetters, that do not have alternative sources
of information like USENET, MAUG or DELPHI, I doubt I can overestimate
their level of frustration by now.

Reminds me a little of the frustration we experienced nearly 2 years ago
when we wanted to gateway INFO-MAC from ARPA to USENET and vice-versa,
and on USENET our request for a seperate news-group was rejected, and we
had to "conspire" to simply flood net.micro with forwarded articles about
Macintosh topics to get net.micro.mac started and "justified".  And the
idea to port net.micro.mac back to the ARPA-group INFO-MAC was "denied"
due to the prevailing opinion that nothing of value was expected from USENET
among "all that juvenile junk".... And how some of us forwarded articles
manually and piece-meal to INFO-MAC to demonstrate otherwise.

Maybe a better set-up will result from all this recent trouble on ARPA, one
which will make such "black-outs" and extended period of "silence" less
likely, if not impossible (after all, those folks developing all that reliable
StarWars-software all live on ARPA ...)

	---Werner
			"yes, I'm somewhat frustrated"