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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,news.groups
Subject: Re: unix-pc.* newsgroups
Message-ID: <605@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 22:47:17 GMT
References: <3764@islenet.UUCP> <164@flatline.UUCP> <3788@islenet.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <3788@islenet.UUCP> richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
>
>After getting a large enough number of favorable responses from the
>net in support of such a move, one or more news admins could add a
>line like the following to their /usr/lib/news/aliases file:
>
>unix-pc.general	comp.sys.att

It is important to realize that the unix-pc net is an alternative
network, which may or may not be carried alongside the 'normal' Usenet
groups.  For my site, for example, doing this would carry no penalty,
as I currently carry both sets of groups.  What of a site which only
carries the unix-pc groups, though?

While the intent of your proposal is laudable, I would suggest that it
only be carried out with the express cooperation of the unix-pc sites
themselves.  If they don't want to do it, the effects, it seems to me,
would be more detrimental than helpful.  We would be increasing the
volume of comp.sys.att by some (albeit small) amount and eliminating
a valuable source of information for some number of unix-pc sites,
which does not appear to be a desirable goal.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame