Why net.decus won't work

[Barry Shein]

Actually, the reason why INFO-VAX is probably sufficient for INFO-VMS is
contained in the request for a new newsgroup itself:

> ...VMS is not the only
> operating system DEC supports.  Even for the VAX there's VaxELAN;

(I didn't omit anything relevant I don't think.) Note the omission of
ULTRIX. I see this over and over again (eg. recent flames about various
DECUS mailings/questionairres omitting any reference to ULTRIX.) No
major judgement here, I just think that INFO-VAX is probably covering
the VMS topic well enough and a new newsgroup would probably just
confuse things. Besides, I suspect there is a huge movement away from
the VAX by UNIX users so the trend will probably be stronger in the
future (VAX users becoming primarily VMS users.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University