Xref: utzoo alt.config:1295 alt.sources.d:259 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!genbank!ames!rex!uflorida!novavax!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.sources.d Subject: Re: alt.ftp-sites: program announcements & archive site info Message-ID: <1989Nov20.065137.18768@twwells.com> Date: 20 Nov 89 06:51:37 GMT References: Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Lines: 39 Approved: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) In article emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: : and bad-bad-bad because there's supposed : to be a comp.archives group for just this purpose but instead it's : bogged down in a lot of meaningless site entry format claptrap. Hey, Ed! Send your list to comp.archives; the site entry thing is only for my database, not for general posting. I already posted Granrose's list when he sent it to me. I'll be happy to post yours as well. : What I propose is a newsgroup (probably an alt group for starters) : which re-posts news from other groups about where to find things. You used to send me things and I posted them. What happened? : Articles would be processed to make sure that headers pointed followup : and discussion to the right places, to tack on whatever other : reasonable headers might be easy to do (like archive site name), : but otherwise there would be minimal effort made to sanitize the : information. That can be arranged. Here's a proposal: for what you are talking about, someone has to scavenge newsgroups for archive site postings, add the extra headers, and post them somewhere. Right? Well, if you can find a victim to do this, let's work it out so that they can post directly on comp.archives. I don't have any up front problems with sharing the moderation of the group, should someone appropriate be found. You'd do. :-) --- Bill { uunet | novavax | ankh | sunvice } !twwells!bill bill@twwells.com send comp.archives postings to comp-archives@twwells.com send comp.archives related mail to comp-archives-request@twwells.com send comp.archives server requests to comp-archives-server@twwells.com