Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!elroy!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: chip@vector.dallas.tx.us (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: sci.commtech: Call 4 votes on news.groups Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 89 21:38:31 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: chip@vector.dallas.tx.us Organization: Dallas Semiconductor Lines: 31 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 188, message 8 of 8 bgsuvax!klopfens@cis.ohio-state.edu (Bruce Klopfenstein) writes: >Please see news.groups for the sci.commtech call for votes. > >[Moderator's Note: All comp.dcom.telcom readers are invited, and urged to >vote regarding the creation of this news group. I recommend a vote of >yes. PT] I strongly urge all comp.dcom.telecom readers to vote "no". The sci.commtech newsgroup is supposed to talk about new communications technology. The proposer lists "telecommunications technologies (including fiber optics and ISDN [...])" as examples in his referenced message. Well, what are we here, chopped liver? I don't know about you, but I'd much rather read about new telecommunication technology here in comp.dcom.telecom rather than seeing it interspersed among postings on interactive videodisks and other such things in a sci.commtech. Not only would the success of a sci.commtech mean the fragmentation of comp.dcom.telecom, but we would also lose the contributions of our [TELECOM Digest] mailing list readers. I don't believe that sci.commtech brings anything new to USENET, and its success will be at the expense of other groups such as comp.dcom.telecom. I urge you to submit a "no" vote to klopfens@bgsuvax.UUCP. (He has requested that votes contain either "vote yes" or "vote no" in the subject.) (Followups might best be directed to news.groups.) -- Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337 "I wish you'd put that starvation box down and go to bed" - Albert Collins' Mom