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From: scott@kong.gatech.edu (Scott Coulter)
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Subject: Re: CFD: Creation of comp.archives.d
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Date: 26 Mar 91 14:24:40 GMT
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In article <5521@vela.acs.oakland.edu> w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) writes:
>I hope the proposed comp.archives.d isn't treated by the readers as another
>comp.sources.wanted.  The last thing most archive administrators need
>is a steady stream of messages asking if such-and-such program is in
>their archives, when the user could find out by downloading the latest
>index of said archive.
>
>Keith

I've lost the original message, but wasn't the proposal for a moderated
group?  If not, it should be.  That would keep the group as one strictly
for discussion of archive maintenance, and filter out requests for
programs, etc.


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