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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: ARexx postings in comp.lang.rexx
Message-ID: <8256@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 2 Jun 89 05:02:04 GMT
References: <3083@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <3083@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, jck@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Chuck Kesler) says:
> I'm an Amiga and ARexx owner, but I think that the use of comp.lang.rexx
> for posting Arexx scripts is quite inappropriate.  The reasoning is quite
> simple:  comp.lang.rexx is gatewayed into the Bitnet REXXLIST Listserv
> mailing list, and the traffic generated by the ARexx postings is not 
> in line with the the subject matter that REXXLIST was started for, which 
> was Rexx running on IBM mainframes, specifically IBM's running VM/SP.  

Reminds me of the people who say things like, "Don't post C-64 sources
to comp.sys.cbm! It overflows our ARPAnet mailboxes!". The Arexx
people are posting their stuff to what they think is the most
appropriate USENET group. Considering how little traffic there has
been in this group, the fact that it is gatewayed to a BITNET group
seems pretty irrelevant.

USENETters shouldn't have to suffer for the poor software
implementation of other message networks.

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