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From: bogstad@smoke.BRL.MIL (William Bogstad )
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.ridge
Subject: Re: Proposed deletion of comp.sys.ridge
Message-ID: <10016@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Apr 89 05:03:49 GMT
References: <9922@smoke.BRL.MIL> <234@noether.UUCP>
Reply-To: bogstad@brl.arpa (William Bogstad (JHU|mike) <bogstad>)
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In article <234@noether.UUCP> rosalia@noether.UUCP (Mark Galassi) writes:
>
>We have lots of ridges here, and will soon have them all on
>the net.  I know it is unfortunate, but because of that we
>need to support eachother (we and other poor ridge owners).
>
>I think we should keep the newsgroup going for another
>6 months, and make a commitment to having discussion so
>we can exchange software patches (it takes a lot
>of patching to get a ridge to work!).
>
>I have just posted a couple of questions, and I hope someone will
>answer them!

	I fully understand your feelings as I felt the same way as I
watched Ridge slowly sink away; but this is not a situation that just
suddenly happened.  There wasn't any really significant work going on at
Ridge (at least from one customers point of view) for some time and
despite that the comp.sys.ridge newsgroup has been silent until my
proposed deletion.  Even when Ridge was a viable company I got few
responses to queries I sent there and those I did get were usually from
Ridge employees.  I would suggest that you attempt to (re)start a 
Ridge mailing list by posting a message to that effect.  I would be
happy to send you the E-mail addresses of any NO votes who express an
interest in the matter.

To refesh every one elses memory here are some excerpts from
my earlier posting:

>	I would like to propose the deletion of the
>newsgroup comp.sys.ridge. ...
>
>As far as I know the only traffic
>in the newsgroup in over a year were two messages a couple
>of months ago commenting on the fact that Ridge Computers
>had announced that they were no longer going to manufacture
>new systems. ...
>

>1. An initial two week discussion period which will end on April 9, 1989.
>
>2. Votes for or against deletion can be sent to bogstad@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu.
>They can be sent at any time but there will be a two week voting
>period after the discussion period.  All votes must be via mail and must
>have a line of the form:
>
>DELETE: YES	or
>DELETE: NO

	As of April 12th, I have received the following votes:

FOR DELETION: (9)

John Hanley <hanley@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>
steven%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Jerry B. Altzman <jbaltz@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu>
charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
"a.e.mossberg" <aem@mthvax.miami.edu>
srhqla!mml (Michael Levin)
drd!mark (Mark Lawrence)
jfh@rpp386.dallas.tx.us (John F. Haugh II)
markw@gvlf1.GVL.Unisys.COM (Mark H. Weber)

AGAINST DELETION: (1)

rosalia@marconi (Mark Galassi)

	I intend to keep the voting booths open for 30 days (May 12th)
now instead of the original 2 weeks.  This will allow more people to
vote and any current? users of comp.sys.ridge to make other
arrangements.

Votes can be sent to bogstad@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu and 
should have either

DELETE: NO
or 
DELETE: YES
in them.

				Bill Bogstad
				bogstad@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu