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From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: WNEWS 3.0 - Someone suggested not to post it
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.205411.15316@jrix.radig.de>
Date: 22 Apr 91 20:54:11 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany
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Hello,

I once had the idea (article: Posting sources - experiences and thoughts)
that the posting of sources should be announced early so the posting can
be prevented. I announced WNEWS 3.0 and now got one of these mails.

--- Name of sender intentionally left blank  -  Fire Department J.R. ---

First of all, I appreciate your porting efforts.  They're useful.

However, I don't think that you should post the sources.  Here's why:
You should be able to use a Mail server to access an ftp site.  I am
enclosing another message (that was posted to comp.os.coherent) about
how to do this.

I would suggest that you find someone whom you could mail your posts to, and
then  have this person ftp them to an ftp site.  I'd offer to do it, but I
am a student, and not always around-- hence, I might lose your mail, or
something along those lines.

Again, thanks for your porting efforts.

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Here was a forwarded message appended (Hans van Oostrom wrote in an
article how to get mail from a mail server, but he didn't send the above
mail, he was the first one that sent me a positive mail after posting TASS.)

Here for all people in the USA:

In Germany mail costs 30 cents for each kilobyte send or receive. WNEWS 3.0
is about 120 k, add test news, headers, about 130 k at all. 130 * 30 cents is
$ 39.
Everybody in Germany who wants to get WNEWS mailed from this server also
needs this $ 39 + $ 1 for the mail to this server. Forget that ! 
TASS - all the mails I got and the answer now cost me about $ 45. But I
don't worry about the money, I just think about the people who have not ftp,
who can't poll sources in the States. News is the cheapest way to get sources 
here in germany and I think also in whole Europe.
I know two nice guys who will ftp sources for me. I have the sources I need,
I can get the sources I need. But I also think about all the other ones.

Sorry, don't want to talk about this stuff any more, angry mail is bad mail.

All those lucky guys who can ftp sources:

WNEWS 3.0 should be available at plains.nodak.edu.
unbatch and sendbatch are difficult to port. But that's not my problem,
I got it working. 

Joachim  

BTW: Don't send me mails about this, do a followup. All mails I receive
in reply to this article will be forwarded to the bitbucket. We now need
a discussion and we need it in comp.os.coherent-