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From: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,news.groups
Subject: Re: Request for special USENIX Meeting
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Date: Sun, 29-Mar-87 14:46:23 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 29 14:46:23 1987
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Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
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I agree with Taylor's suggestion that USENIX should have a special
meeting for discussing the whole direction of usenet. To allow maximum
participation from the members, it should be held as part of the summer
conference this year.

I am relatively new to the net, so I won't say too much on the
subject(s).  However, I feel that if we attempt to put too much control
over the network, and if we require explicit financial commitment from
the users that exceed a few dollars, and too much time from the system
administors (I am the sysadmin here), the whole network is in danger of
dying a quick death.

Our connection to the usenet is a bootleg project at my company, with
me putting in my own time to administer it, because I believe in it,
and believe in its value to my company (Don't ask me to justify it to
my management, it isn't worth the effort). My only news feed is in the
same city, and his only newsfeed is in Toronto, whose only news feed is
utzoo. And I feed two other sites!!

As you can see, any shakeup of the usenet community resulting in
desertion of a small percentage of the sites could cause major segments
of the net to loose their connections.

PLEASE BE VERY AWARE OF THIS, AND TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN YOU
CONTEMPLATE CHANGES. WE ARE AT YOUR MERCY!
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