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From: jmc@ptsfa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: abuse of the net
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 11:33:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 23 11:33:33 1986
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Reply-To: jmc@ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin)
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In article <2044@hammer.UUCP> tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy (Snoopy) writes:
>In article <3710@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>> I don't see why UNIX machines should be expected to pay for distributing
>>> software and discussions for other operating systems.  ...
>>
>>Because there is a large base of users of those machines that happen to be
>>using Unix machines to communicate.

A few net groups are absolutely unique to usenet (not being replicated 
on local BBS systems and pay-for-use systems like CompuServe). These 
are the more technical groups: net.unix, net.lan etc. Whatever else 
happens first priority must be to preserve these groups. Discussions 
about MSDOS, pets, gardening and Atari ST's can, if necessary, be 
continued elsewhere. 

The arguements about net groups typically reduce to personal 
preference, a popularity contest about which ones most of the people 
using the net happen to like or a signal-to-noise ratio discussion. 
Since the net, as it is now, cannot grow without bound, breaking it 
down into various (hopefully reasonably interconnected domains) is 
probably inevitable at some point. If nothing else, trying to 
transfer 1 Gig of news a day will not work with current technology. 

My personal preference is to think of the net as composed of four 
fundamental parts: net.unique.groups, net.other.technical.groups 
(net.micro etc), net.the.rest and mod.* and to base future plans on 
these fundamental domains. 
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