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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.162954.4469@dsuvax.uucp>
Date: 4 Apr 91 16:29:54 GMT
References: <49720@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: Dakota State University
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In <49720@nigel.ee.udel.edu> mmdf@ee.udel.edu (The Mailer) writes:

>Post a SINGLE message reguarding the
>availability of a new posting, and then take requests.

Yuck.  I like to snag everything that comes by (I'm a kind of
unintelligent archiver :-).  I don't have time to mail everyone
requesting that they send me their latest and greatest source
and patches and then follow up to make sure I get them.

I don't want to have to mail out sources to a group of people
every time I've got something to give away.  This would impede
the process of sharing our code, since making a code available
would entail a good deal of effort that most people wouldn't want to
deal with.

USENET exists to serve us.  What good is our grand network
of news machines if we can't send sources to each other as part of news?
-- 
Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services
helmer@sdnet.bitnet, dsuvax!ghelmer@wunoc.wustl.edu, wupost!dsuvax!ghelmer
"I'm a cowboy, on a keyboard I ride..."
                                        -- with apologies to Bon Jovi