Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Cooperation Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 89 19:52:48 GMT References: <16913@obiwan.mips.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: usa Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 36 In-reply-to: mark@mips.COM's message of 10 Apr 89 01:18:21 GMT In article <16913@obiwan.mips.COM> mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes: In article <2659@tank.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes: ...Similarly, a message to the only participant of NeXt on this net (Ali O.) Sounds like it's known for sure that NeXT has a net-feed... Depends upon what you mean. The UUCP map database shows that they have UUCP connections with adobe and pixar, but neither of those entries claims a news exchange. They're on CSnet for internet mail, but nothing answers the phone at (what would be) their NNTP socket. You can get mail in and out, but it's a fair bet that nobody reads news on any machines inside NeXT. ...so it's a given, a certainty, that most of their technical folks read this newsgroup. As above, it ain't necessarily so. Mr Ozer participates from an account (perhaps a guest account, or one left over from grad-student days) at Stanford. Others there have similar accounts elsewhere (hi Bob!). Unless the map entries are inaccurate or most of their tech staff have guest accounts elsewhere, they are isolated from the news, and therefore from this discussion forum. Heck, maybe even their marketing & management jockeys read it too. Feedback of both kinds (gripes and praise) on the net are heard (and quite likely, acted upon) if not acknowledged. Some choice excerpts get through and cause occasional waves :-) Of course the exact wrong thing to do would be to mail a hotheaded flame to ...!next!steve That would not only not get you the desired effect, but may get NeXT's net connections yanked altogether. Apparently he doesn't like the competition from other, lesser hotheads :-) :-)