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In article <1992Oct30.110133.3918@memstvx1.memst.edu>, flowers@memstvx1.memst.edu (Harry Flowers) writes:
> Well, we might want to bring comp.org.decus in on this discussion, to avoid
> the whole vmsnet.decus.lugs pouting that went on there after the fact.  If
> there's enough support for a comp.org.decus.journal, we might want to go
> through the hassles of trying it as a usenet group, esp. if a lot of people
> will get their nose out of joint by having to read it in a group that has
> the letters "VMS" in it.
> 
We (DECUServe executive committee) would prefer vmsnet in this case.  First, we
don't want to wait for a usenet group.  Second, DECUServe is primarily a VMS
service (sure, we offer unix and pc stuff, but our world revolves around VMS). 
Third, we feel our primary audience is in the vmsnet community.  Forth,
DECUServe, as a DECUS entity, has already committed to support of this
distribution method should it be acceptable to the vmsnet community.

If there is a political problem with using the vmsnet.decus hierarchy,
vmsnet.decuserve.journal would be fine.  Should Joel's newsletter project get
off the ground, we may want to shift our distribution to there, or continue
with vmsnet as well.  The DECUServe executive committee wants to "fit" the
Internet culture.  We are quite aware of the tendency of DECUS leadership to
want to do it their way, but, as long as I'm on XCOM, we won't be doing that.

Just as an aside.  We now have anu-news running on DECUServe, but we're 
resolving the political issues before making it available to our subscribers.  
Then you'll start seeing more people from DECUServe here.  Hopefully we'll be
making it more transparent extracting and importing between vmsnet and
DECUServe.  The Management Council has stated that they want to be a player in
the Internet community and we (DECUServe) have taken that as a mandate to
further our own efforts in that direction.  Of course, this is all on DECUS
time, so it could take a while :-(
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