🚀 go-pugleaf

if you have a uucp or nntp connection to CAEN, and are not affiliated
with the university or another academic or research institution, you
should start making plans for replacing it or doing without it.

we need to prioritize our resources, both human and electronic, much
more towards college and university use.

that means extending more nntp and uucp connections to university
units.  there needs to be a clearly demonstrated gain to the college
and university and/or some sort of quid pro quo established for any
non-academic or research sites' connections.

speaking as the person who established the first news connection at the
university of michigan, and with plenty of 'free' connections and feeds
given out over the last 9 years i feel that the time, technology, and
economics of news and mail connections are such that university units
such as CAEN no longer need to play a role in distributing news and
mail.

we will be contacting sites individually with more details.  feel free
to mail me questions and comments, or post them here.  no one else at
the CAEN has the authority to grant or deny nntp or uucp connection
requests, with the exception of the director.  quite honestly, i am
sure that some of us here at CAEN disagree with this action, but it is
really an important thing for us to do.