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From: stowe@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Fox in Sox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: CODE POSTING ON THE NET
Keywords: news, USENET, ARPA mailing-lists, BITNET
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Date: 13 Jun 89 20:32:12 GMT
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In article <382@laas.laas.fr> ralph@laas.laas.fr writes:

[talks about ARPA and BITNET...]
>
>Both of these services are gatewayed with the corresponding
>newsgroups; just look in news.lists about mailing lists. 

In addition, BITNET also has a LISTSERV list for the ST.  Usenet may not
be alone, but ARPA and BITNET aren't the poor country cousins, either.
They have their own methods to the madness.

> For the
>people on these alternate networks, this is the only means to
>communicate source/binary code.

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!  Wrong-o, sleighbell lovers.  There are a number of
LISTSERV file sites as well as AtariNet in Houston (assuming it's still
up and running since I haven't tried it in a while).  Certainly you don't
think that Usenet is the only network to figure out how to send files.


>  And it is perfectly correct.

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! again.  This group is for discussions.  The binaries
group is for binaries.  The sources group is for sources.  If someone
wants to take the time and effort to gather those together and mail
them out to subscribers OTHER than INFO-ATARI16, I'm sure there would
be takers.  Once of the reasons I dropped INFO-ATARI16 is because I
got woefully tired of wading through lines and lines of UUE files just
to find the messages.



>I believe that a solution is impossible.  

Not at all.  

>It would require separation
>automatically at the gateway (normally at UCB) such that messages
>would be equally visible on each side of the gateway, and code would
>be side-lined to the appropriate moderator (easy for comp.*.atari.st)
>for posting.

No, what it requires is someone who would archive up the other groups
for their submission to lists similar to INFO-ATARI16.


>Let's hope that Steven Grimm archives the occasional posting of code, here.

I hope Steven Grimm continues to do his job properly and DOESN'T post 
code here.










stowe@silver.indiana.bacs.edu                    At night the Ice Weasels come.