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- From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Re: comp.sys.3b1, fading away?
- Message-ID: <64211@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 06:24:22 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Aug17.204118.20361@morwyn.uucp>
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Aug17.204118.20361@morwyn.uucp>
- forrie@morwyn.uucp (Forrie Aldrich) writes:
-
- | I read the article posted recently regarding concern that this group might
- | be fading away, etc. etc., and would like to offer my 00.02 cents...
- | [...]
-
- There was another article prior to yours? Sheesh.
-
- I wish I could spend more time browsing Usenet, but for the past year or so
- I've been working 14+ hours a day (in anticipation of a new commercial
- product making its debut in a few weeks; a preview was shown at a recent
- SGI EXPO in San Jose CA).
-
- Point being: I only have, at most, 1 hour a day to handle email and scan
- the 300+ newsgroups to which I "subscribe." Not much time to be as active
- in comp.sys.3b1 as I'd like (until, perhaps, mid-September).
-
- Compounding the frustration (of lack of time) is AT&T's total lack of support
- for the Silicon Valley UNIX Users' Group. Besides the fact they sold their
- West Coast Training Center building (where we used to hold our monthly 3B1
- meetings) to AMD, the prospects of a new meeting site are very dim, and we
- haven't had a meeting in 3 months now.
-
- Given the litigious society in which we live, the chances of finding a new
- sponsor are very slim. Even hotels want $$$ for meeting rooms far beyond the
- financial reach of a 100-person group to afford. Sigh.
-
- I still use my 3B1 systems VERY heavily; one is tied into my office network
- from home constantly. And others are used as "terminals". This should say
- a lot for the 3B1, the fact that they're so reliable I *DEPEND* upon them.
-
- For those in Silicon Valley, the last home for the Users' Group is teaming
- up with HT Electronics (in Sunnyvale CA) which has an interest in forming a
- SVR4 Users' Group for the Amiga computers; given that HT has a meeting room
- and needs a users' group, and that we have a users' group and no meeting
- room, ... more details later.
-
- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
-