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From: emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Ted H. Emigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: unix-pc news
Message-ID: <2865@ncsugn.ncsu.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 88 15:11:30 GMT
References: <142@gizzmo.UUCP>
Reply-To: emigh@ncsugn.UUCP (Ted H. Emigh)
Organization: Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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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

NO!!!!

Why "fix" something that isn't broken.  The disadvantages greatly
outnumber the advantages.  Remember that there are people in the unix-pc
network with 20MB disks ...TOTAL...

Since other good points have been made, I would like to mention only one
other.  In the year that we have been connected to unix-pc, I have NEVER
seen a discussion in the newsgroups about inappropriate postings (except
for a discussion about security), or long messages complaining about
how much traffic there is, or any of the garbage that goes as standard
fare on usenet.

I'll add ncsugn as a site that is willing to have unix-pc connections if
someone can't get one.

-- 
Ted H. Emigh, Dept. Genetics and Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
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