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From: rsweeney@dasys1.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: Request: alt.sysops & alt.bbstalk
Message-ID: <1354@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 03:53:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: dasys1.1354
Posted: Tue Sep 22 03:53:34 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Sep-87 07:17:25 EDT
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Reply-To: rsweeney@dasys1.UUCP (Robert Sweeney)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
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In article <4533@ncoast.UUCP> robertd@ncoast.UUCP (Rob DeMarco) writes:
>
>    I am proposing that a news group
>called "alt.sysops" and "alt.bbstalk"
>be set up

I believe I referenced this topic when the issue of the 'talk' groups
of the same names was raised recently, but here I go again: as
administrator of the 'mail.sysops' network mailing list, I believe
that the need for a newsgroup doesn't yet exist.  'mail.sysops' currently
has 47 subscribers, and processes approx. 1-2 messages per MONTH.  Perhaps
the list needs new blood; I don't know, but it seems to me that there
just aren't all that many people on the USENET interested in BBS operations.

'mail.sysops' is small, and I think that our mail system could handle a lot
more subscribers before it begins to founder.  I suggest that people interested
in BBS topics subscribe to the list.  In the future, if traffic warrants it,
perhaps a newsgroup should be created.

(although if the altnet decides to create the groups anyway, I'll do something
like set up a gateway between the list and the newsgroups for list
subscribers without altnet access.) 

/RS

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Robert Sweeney              {sun!hoptoad,cmcl2!phri}!dasys1!rsweeney
Big Electric Cat Public Access Unix (212) 879-9031 - System Operator
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