Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sparky!kent
From: kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: PLEASE post only sources to alt.sources
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.155349.17233@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 91 15:53:49 GMT
References: <1991Mar08.144014.28853@convex.com> <1991Mar9.022240.27214@wolves.uucp> <7936@tyrell.gtc.de>
Organization: Sterling Software IMD, Bellevue, Nebraska
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In article <7936@tyrell.gtc.de> rodney@tyrell.gtc.de (Rodney Volz) writes:
>
>How about RMGROUPing alt.sources and re-MKGROUPing it
>right away as a moderated newsgroup? I'd appreciate to
>have all source postet in the format common in comp.sources.unix.
>
>Would allow to archive sources automatically, as well.

This would defeat the whole purpose of alt.sources. We already have a 
moderated sources group where the moderator's job is *just* to assure 
that the postings have the appropriate auxiliary headers and can unshar 
correctly.  comp.sources.misc has better distribution than alt.sources 
and it is archived at known, major sites.

The intent of alt.sources was to provide a place where people could just 
pipe sources to inews if the fit overtook them. :-) It has also become a 
place where people send software to be beta tested.  When the author is 
satisified that the bug reports have died down, they can submit their 
software to c.s.misc for archiving having let the community do their final 
testing.

The original charter of comp.sources.misc called for moderation solely 
to reject non-source postings, nothing more; the intent was to provide 
net.sources without the noise.  The advantages of posting to c.s.m are 
that archiving is almost as widespread as that of comp.sources.unix, 
that anything that is source code can be posted, and that it's guaranteed 
not to be lost in non-source, discussion postings. The disadvantages are 
that there is a minor delay caused by having to filter stuff through the 
moderator.  Currently, that delay is less than 48 hours and in most cases 
goes out the day I receive it.

I will make this offer again, there is an open invitation to all who are 
willing to share their creations with the rest of us.  As c.s.m moderator, 
I will do my very best to get submissions out to the community as fast as 
possible.  Development and testing are your responsibility, posting and 
archiving are mine.  :-)
				-Kent+

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