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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,news.groups
Subject: Re: splitting comp.sys.att
Message-ID: <2360@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 04:49:58 GMT
References: <1285@edison.GE.COM> <1590@ethos.UUCP>
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Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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Keywords: alternative
Summary: More reasons to keep unix-pc.* separate from Usenet

In article <1590@ethos.UUCP>, gary@ethos.UUCP (Gary J. Smith) 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:

	[reasons deleted for brevity]

> 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.

	I wholeheartedly agree with Gary.  There is NO ONE READING AND
POSTING TO THE unix-pc.* GROUPS WHO DOES NOT ***WANT*** TO BE THERE.

	As a result of the above, in my opinion the unix-pc.* groups have
the highest quality and signal-to-noise ratio of any newsgroup anywhere.
I am fearful that this might change if the unix-pc.* groups were somehow
assimilated into "mainstream" Usenet.

	As a site which distributes the unix-pc.* groups to several other
sites, I "vote" to keep the groups separate.

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