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From: gary@ethos.UUCP (Gary J. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,news.groups
Subject: Re: unix-pc.* newsgroups
Message-ID: <1598@ethos.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 22:30:38 GMT
References: <3764@islenet.UUCP> <164@flatline.UUCP> <3788@islenet.UUCP>
Reply-To: gary@ethos.UUCP (Gary J. Smith)
Organization: Humanities Forum at ethos, Gray, TN
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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

Please think long and hard before doing this.  Remember that a
large number of 3B1s on the unix-pc net are not on usenet.  You
will be essentially shutting out the average 3B1 owner from the
net, you will be placing the discussion under the control of the
netgods who probably have never even heard of a 3B1, and you will
be doing something that will be increasingly difficult to UNdo
should it turn out to be a bad idea.

I still do not understand the benefit of unix-pc being swallowed
by comp.sys.att.  Can't anyone who is interested in the 3B1 hook
into the unix-pc net?  Yes.  Is anyone being forced to read it
that doesn't want to? No.  The only advantage I can see is that
it might be cheaper to you and me -- the costs of transmitting 
the net would be transferred onto the already over-burdened backs 
of the backbone sites, who continue to complain more and more
everyday about runaway net-volume.  When examined closely, I
think that is more of a disadvantage than an advantage.

Until I hear an argument to convince me otherwise, ethos will
continue to receive and transmit articles in the unix-pc net
separate from comp.sys.att.

There always IS the option of cross-posting, by the way.

-- 
	  	 
Gary J. Smith, M.D.	{mcnc,ihnp4}!ethos!gary 
			P.O. Box 8005, Gray, Tenn. 37615