Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!moegate!soley
From: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: can.usrgroup
Subject: Re: Meeting Notice
Message-ID: <372@moegate.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 10:43:44 GMT
References: <248aab57@fricker.uucp> <2176@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Distribution: can
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment
Lines: 38

In article <2176@ubc-cs.UUCP> morrison@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison) writes:
>
>Now, I have been subscribing (reading would be too generous) to this
>group since its inception. I have yet to discern any reason why anything
>that appears here would be of any interest to anyone outside of an
>apparently small clique of readers in Toronto and near vicinity.
>
>I suggest that rather that than wasting network resources, nation-wide,
>on the sort of idle chatter that predominates here, that this group be
>converted to 1 (or more) regional mailing lists. 

Here! Here! I've never understood why we needed this group in the first place,
I refused to newgroup it when I was on ontenv, somehow it slipped through the
cracks here. The argument runs something like this:

	We already have comp.org.usrgroup, and the ability to limit
	distrubution to can so we don't need it for /usr/group/cdn

	We already have ont.events for meeting announcements for UU and
	/usr/group/cdn so we don't need it for that.

	UU has a mailing list for their internal chatter so we don't need it
	for that.

	The traffic in {can,ont,tor}.general is low enough that if there is
	actually something to be discussed publicly about either of these
	organizations there's plenty of room for it. 

	So, what do we need can.usrgroup for?

OK, I'm about to 'rmgroup -d local can.usrgroup' anybody care to talk me out of
it? 

-- 
  Norman Soley - The Communications Guy - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
soley@moegate.UUCP  or if you roll your own:  uunet!attcan!ncrcan!moegate!soley
   The Minister speaks for the Ministry, I speak for myself. Got that! Good. 
     Stay smart, go cool, be happy, it's the only way to get what you want