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From: gary@ethos.UUCP (Gary J. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,news.groups
Subject: Re: splitting comp.sys.att
Keywords: alternative
Message-ID: <1590@ethos.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 23:57:29 GMT
References: <1285@edison.GE.COM>
Reply-To: gary@ethos.UUCP (Gary J. Smith)
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Organization: Humanities Forum at ethos, Gray, TN
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In article <1285@edison.GE.COM> rja@edison.GE.COM (rja) writes:

>  Since there are active unix-pc newsgroups in the alternate newsgroups,
>and a lot of material is cross-posted between unix-pc.* and comp.sys.att,
>why not MOVE unix-pc.* to comp.sys.att.pc?

I have been with the unix-pc alternative network since the
beginning, and I would object to its being swallowed up by the
net.  There were several reasons that we decided to establish the
network as a 'private' network:

   - Only people interested in the 3B1 would need to carry
     the group and pay for the phone time in transmitting
     the group.

   - We would not be tyrannized by a small group of system
     administrators at backbone sites, as usenet is.

   - There would be no pressure to limit what we post, since
     the unix-pc groups would be small in size and would be
     carried by only those interested in having them (with
     usenet one feels as if he needs permission before he
     can post an article for fear of increasing net volume).

The only thing that has changed since the initiation of the
unix-pc network is that now many more people have 3B1s and many
more sites are members of the unix-pc net.  I really do not see
how our joining usenet would benefit anyone -- it would increase
the already overloaded usenet volume, and it would place a small
circle of system administrators who may have no interest at all 
in 3B1s in control of the groups.


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