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From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: moderation of alt.sources vs. automated harangues
Message-ID: <1989Nov2.033731.14704@sq.sq.com>
Summary: change *.sources.* to *.sourcecode.*
Reply-To: lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Organization: Unixsys (UK) Ltd
References: <2024@convex.UUCP> <1989Oct13.192835.1330@talos.uucp> <1989Oct14.012800.12049@rpi.edu> <2645@pur-phy> <1989Oct15.003835.9012@rpi.edu> <17149@rpp386.cactus.org> <1989Oct17.005207.16223@rpi.edu> <17160@rpp386.cactus.org> <1989Oct23.065310.25620@rpi.edu> <14 <1989Oct24.223853.16789@NCoast.ORG>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 89 03:37:31 GMT

Brandon S. Allbery (allbery@NCoast.ORG) wrote:
>| Name changes, moderation etc. are all solutions hunting for a problem.
>> . . .
>| the name were changed, people would still post requests for reposts and
>| "does anyone have X" to it.  Only education will solve the problem.

>[...]  The point is that
>*all* of the mis-posted submissions I get for comp.sources.misc are derived
>from confusion about the intent of the word "sources".  It should be more
>explicit about what it means; please remember that most people do *not* use
>the word the way it is often used in program-related newsgroups and in the
>names of the existing source-code newsgroups.

You have a good point there, I think.
Maybe alt.sourcecode (and comp.sourcecode) would be a better name.
At least "sourcecode" is not a normal English (American? Canadian?) word.

On the other hand, vaster than empires, the mighty Usenet slowly turns, and
I would expect that changing the name of sources groups would irritate
everyone who archived them.
It is obviously helpful if all of the sourcecode groups have similar names.

Lee
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lee@sq.com (a visitor to Toronto for a few weeks, not an "sq" employee)