#: 15772 S5/OS9 Users Group
    03-Jul-92  22:15:48
Sb: #15696-announcement
Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
To: John Wight 76370,2100

Nice to see you are around.  I thought you had disappeared.

I certainly think the OS-9 community needs the OS-9 User Group.  I know the
first time didn't work out well.  In fact, it probably bothered me more than
you to see all of my several years of hard work go down the drain.  But I
believe that it will work better this time.

Living where I do, the value of OS-9 CN isn't as clear.  As I have mentioned
before, I don't know where to find Fido or what I would do with it if I found
it.  But I trust you judgement that it is useful to a group of OS-9 users.  And
I don't see how the goals of the OS-9 UG and the OS-9 CN conflict with each
other or exclude the other.  Surely some folks will want to be members of both.
I agree that effort should be put into cross pollination.  For example, perhaps
the OS-9 CN would like to use the MOTD to keep non-Fido people abreast of the
OS-9 CN doings.

Like you, I don't know an efficient means to stay in communication.  A local
public access Unix connection is reasonable in price, but isn't available
everywhere.  For now, CIS is a common intersection. StG net is growing, but
again the cost of moving news around has to be borne by someone.  Have you
tried to interest the StG guys in OS-9 CN?  There appears to be some redundant
effort there.