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From: steve@pnet51.cts.com (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The ZMAG/ST Report Mailing List
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Date: 20 Jan 89 18:05:11 GMT
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Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes) writes:
>
>  In reply to the one no vote, which I didn't see until after I posted my 
>earlier article...
>  I never saw that discussion and I have been reading this newsgroup for 6
>months now.  So far the requests for the ZMAG posting have been all favorable 
>except yours.  There seems to be no reason not to post ZMAG that I can see; as
>has been said before and will be again...just use whatever feature you have 
>available to SKIP the ZMAG posting.  Since you are with some ST organization 
>(I saw it in your signature) I suspect you are against posting of the ST mag.
>On that issue we agree...I'd much prefer the ST just died and we could get 
>on with the development of a REAL computer! :)  Such as the Atari 8/16 bit 
>line. :)
>
>  Views and opinions change with time; since yours is the only view opposing 
>the posting, I think it fair that we go with the majority and start posting 
>the ZMAG.
>
>(off the soapbox..only cuz it slipped out from beneath me)
>
> Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com

Let me reiterate the arguments against posting the magazine to a newsgroup:
 
* It's not in character. Newsgroups promote group discussion. The Zmags are
not discussion; the Zmag editors and contributors are not even on the net.

* It's a commercial enterprise that carries advertising, which conflicts with
the noncommercial, cooperative nature of the network.
 
* It's excessively long. Some of us run UUCP nodes on SMALL systems -- I run
mine on two floppies -- and some of us have rather tenuous network
connections. Obviously that isn't a problem for those of you on Portal (a
commercial system), but Usenet consists of five to ten thousand sites with
widely varying capabilities.
 
* There really isn't very much interest in it. I posted an offer a few days
ago to set up a mailing list for e-mail distribution of the Zmag. So far I
have received exactly ONE reply. (The offer still stands.)

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