premature dropping of unix-pc.* (was Re: semi regular kit blurb)
Gary S. Trujillo
gst at gnosys.svle.ma.us
Fri Feb 15 07:37:45 AEST 1991
In <1991Feb12.072818.24706 at i88.isc.com> botton at i88.isc.com
(Brian D. Botton) writes:
> Hi Netland Kit Builders,
> This will probably be my last multiple group posting, I can't tell you how
> glad I am to have the new groups, ;-)...
I don't want to pick on Brian, but I selected this posting to follow up since
Brian has been a regular poster for a while, and makes explicit mention of
his dropping unix-pc.general from the Newsgroups line of his posting.
My opinion is that not only should the unix-pc.* newsgroups be kept around
for a few months, but that we should all continue to cross-post to them for
this same time period (say through the end of April). Some of us are in
the position of getting only a partial news feed, and having to negotiate
with a busy system administrator at a net-neighbor site in order to pick up
the feed of the new comp.*.3b1 newsgroups. After several weeks of poking
and prodding and gentle reminders, I finally succeeded myself, but I'm sure
I've missed quite a bit of traffic in the process.
I thought the whole point of having a few months of keeping the unix-pc.*
newsgroups around was to permit people to switch over gently and gradually,
without missing anything. If people stop cross-posting to those groups,
the whole scheme falls apart. Sure, it provides additional incentive to
pick up the new newsgroups, but just because they're carried in the main-
stream hierarchy is no guarantee that they're going to be easy for every-
one to pick up, in fact, I can think of some folks who are at the end of
a UNIXpc-based chain who are dependent upon net-neighbors who currently
have no access themselves to the new newsgroups.
So - I make an appeal: Please continue to cross-post to unix-pc.general and
unix-pc.sources (I don't care so much about unix-pc.uucp and unix-pc.test)
at least until the end of April.
There, now I feel better! :-)
Gary
P.S. to people in this position - did you know that unix-pc.general has
dried up to a trickle, while comp.sys.3b1 is going like gangbusters,
and that there have been a number of goodies posted to the new
sources newsgroup??? I'll post a list in unix-pc.general and in
comp.sys.att to let you see what you're missing.
--
Gary S. Trujillo gst at gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst
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