Aalice.350 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!alice!sjb Thu Jan 7 17:50:35 1982 Re: space@mit-mc Here are some more points on this subject that I had no time to submit this morning as I had to shove off for (ugh) school: There is a difference in topics in the space digest and net.columbia. While the space digest mainly has discussions about space topics and applications and future possibilities (e.g. now I see a lot on SPS, Skyhooks, Laser launching systems, etc.), net.columbia seems to be mainly centered on current events (e.g. now there is a lot on the preparations for STS-3 -- this is after a short lull after STS-2, and things should pick up a bit) Both things are suited to their topics -- i.e. a digest is great for the discussion but relatively bad for current news, while direct distribution (net.columbia) is better for new than it is for discussion. While I wouldn't mind seeing discussion on net.columbia, I don't want to compete with space at mc as they seem to be doing a pretty good job at it! Adam ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.