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From: andrew@teletron.UUCP (Andrew Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: unix-pc.* newsgroups
Summary: unix-pc.* users:  please cross-post
Message-ID: <210@teletron.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 88 22:01:38 GMT
References: <3764@islenet.UUCP> <164@flatline.UUCP> <3788@islenet.UUCP> <1049@bakerst.UUCP>
Organization: TeleTronic Communications Ltd., Edmonton, Alta.
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In article <1049@bakerst.UUCP>, kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent) writes:
> These points have already been made by others, but I think they're
> worth reiterating:
> 
> 	1.  You can always cross-post to comp.sys.att, and many
> 	    people do.
> 
> 	2.  A lot of the people on the current unix-pc.* net
> 	    do NOT have access to comp.sys.att and would lose
> 	    their source of information if the unix-pc.* groups
> 	    were swallowed by The Greater Usenet.

Since we can't agree as to whether or not the groups should be combined into
one newsgroup, I would like to propose that *every* article (about the 7300
or 3b1) posted to either comp.sys.att or unix-pc.general be cross-posted to
the other newsgroup as well.  The article would then be accessible to readers
of both groups and people with access to only one of the newsgroups would
be able to see the posting.  No extra overhead would be involved, as the
article would be transmitted once and would be stored in one file.

As Kathy stated, many unix-pc net readers would lose information in the
groups were swallowed by USENET.  My motivation for the above proposal is
the opposite; I am at a 3b1 site that receives the full USENET newsfeed
from a local site, but does not receive unix-pc groups, and probably won't
if we have to pay long distance phone bills to get them.  (Justifying news
to management would be difficult.)  I'd love to see more UNIX pc information
than we already do through comp.sys.att, and this would be a painless way
to get it if posters remember to cross post.

	Andrew Scott		..alberta!teletron!andrew

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