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From: jay@metran.UUCP (Jay Ts)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Comp.sources.unix idle _AGAIN_
Summary: diplomacy
Message-ID: <376@metran.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 91 06:13:20 GMT
References: <27B97DD1.63A0@tct.uucp> <80524101@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <3520@uc.msc.umn.edu>
Organization: Metran Technology, Tampa, Florida
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In article <3520@uc.msc.umn.edu>, alan@uh.msc.umn.edu (Alan Klietz) writes:
> In article <80524101@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
> <In article <27B97DD1.63A0@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> <>So what's going to spur more articles _this_ time?
> <
> <Round-the-clock bombing?
> 
> Try sanctions first.

A VERY serious suggestion:  Let's try diplomacy.

First, I think it may not be good to pressure the release of new software.
As has been discussed before, this leads to the release of "software before
its time".  I'd much rather see just 5 new programs per year that work than
50 programs per year, of which only 5 work.  I'd rather see no programs at
all than a program that won't compile on my machine without days (err, I
mean "nights") of hacking.

OK, so here is a suggestion.  During periods of quiet, why not release
intermediate versions of programs.  I am tired of seeing Patch Level #50
posts to software I don't have (but want) Patch Level #0 of.  Many, including
myself, do not have inexpensive (or free) access to an archive site.

I would very much like to get the full source for ELM, for example, at
a recent patch level.  Considering the low volume that has been going
through comp.sources.unix, I don't think anyone can reasonably complain
of it taking too much net bandwidth.

(I am new to comp.sources.unix, so I hope this doesn't sound too stupid.)

So what say?

				Jay Ts
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