Conference 7.286::space

    	I'd like to see mostly technical articles about the space program,
    though I must say that I found the editorials posted to be interesting
    and informative.  I get the feeling that the management of the space
    program will be just as important to our effort as any technical
    innovations.  I should also mention that I don't know how to get
    a USENET subscription.
    
    Rich

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    re .3:  No.
    
    To add my 2�:  I am of two minds.  On the one had, I get the USENET
    subscriptions, and don't need to see duplicates here.  On the other
    hand, a lot of junk comes through USENET, and more than once, I
    have deleted a mailing w/o reading the whole thing, only to discover
    something interesting from it was posted here or somewhere else.
    
    Burns

    I think the problem is the lenght of USENET article, if it is
    short (one or two screenfulls) ok but on long USENET maybe cutting
    out the most important part to fit the topic or the point you wanted
    to make.  
    
    Re:4 I don't like to see them go for the same reasons , but very long
    USENET articles make me hit the delete key and I may have missed something
    Also AP article are remove every 24 hrs or whatever so if I am on
    vacation , net is down , whatever I like to see the short article
    about space activities, an example was the AP article on a Progress
    launch I had missed, someone publish it so I was able to keep my
    MIR Timeline up to date.                                            
    
    jb
    

    
    	I've been reading this file from start to here, and groan a
    little inside when the aricles run over 100 lines.  I read notes
    for "short" breaks during the day.  I have enjoyed reading most
    everything, but an article over 100 lines takes more han a couple
    of seconds.  That's my opinion.
    
    						-Jerry
    

    I would like to thank the people who have responded to my request.
    
    The consensus seems to be that most people don't care for long
    articles.  There are those who subscribe to the USENET and don't
    care to see stuff twice.
    
    So I am going to take a bit harsher stance on the USENET mail and
    require that the number of submissions be kept to a bare minimum,
    and they should be edited if over 75 lines to reduce some of the
    noise.  It is preferable that the few that may be worthy be kept
    to 50 lines or less.
    
    While some people like editorials, others don't care for them. 
    I prefer to have facts, although I don't mind E-net'ers voicing
    their opinions, I don't think we need weekly editorials posted
    here.
    
    If someone wants to start a USENET_ON_SPACE conference, or the
    AEROSPACE conference doesn't mind the USENET articles, then people
    can post to their hearts content in one of those.
    
    The AP articles are a completely different story, and I encourage
    relevant submissions.  All I ask of the AP articles is that the
    VT100 graphics be removed so that they lose their "VTX" look and
    look more like straight text.  My many thanks to Neil for posting
    relavent articles from the AP wire, please keep up the good work.
    
    					Thanks in advance for your
    					  cooperation,
    					-Dave (the moderator)

    The AEROSPACE conference would be happy to accept the USENET articles.
    Just understand that the material in that conference is not archived
    and is DELETED periodicaly.
    
    jim (Moderator of AEROSPACE)
    

    	Sounds like a fair policy Dave.

Re: .7

It appears that over time, it has been 4 years, USENET articles are now the 
accepted norm for posting in this conference. I do read USENET and occasionally
post articles here for information or discussion. One particular USENET article
I do not see posted here is the space news from AWST magazine that Henry
Spencer writes. These are very interesting and informative and do elicit a lot
of comment on USENET. I wanted to post in 293, but it is write locked, and I
can see why. Do the moderators object to posting the space news articles? Is
anyone else interested in this information?