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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: WNEWS 3.0 - Someone suggested not to post it
Message-ID: <9104240709.48@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 91 16:27:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.205411.15316@jrix.radig.de>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <1991Apr22.205411.15316@jrix.radig.de> joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) writes:
>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.
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>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-


I believe that we should post sources here.  If the volume starts to get out
of hand, then we should lobby for a comp.sources.coherent group.  I do not
want to wade through comp.os.minix, nor do I want to rely on ftp by mail.
Sources aren't so bad if they are broken up into reasonable size shar files.


Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP