Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!jpradley!shawn From: shawn@jpradley.jpr.com (Shawn Blair) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Subject: Re: Posting Sources Keywords: coherent sources Message-ID: <1991Apr30.153008.23601@jpradley.jpr.com> Date: 30 Apr 91 15:30:08 GMT References: <9104211631.09@rmkhome.UUCP> <1991Apr23.121024.16716@garfield.cs.mun.ca> Organization: /usr/lib/news/organisation Lines: 26 In article <1991Apr23.121024.16716@garfield.cs.mun.ca> matthew1@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Matthew J. Newhook) writes: > >Don't you guys think that it's completely pointless to post the *same* >sources that appear in comp.os.minix? This seems to me like a complete >waste of bandwidth... sure post patches (if the minix versions don't work), >but the entire source again??? > I hate to see a waste of bandwidth, but I also hate to waste my time reading newsgroups that don't contribute something to my needs (be they interesting or not). To maintain a common source group would simplify the source problem. Posting patches to this group or the comp.os.group would reduce multiple postings of specific source. Until something is resolved with a common or uncommon :) sources group, I think we should allow posting of source to comp.os.coherent. Needless to say if the original source has been posted recently to comp.os.minix, post just the patches and save bandwidth. But let the comp.os.coherent group know what has been posted to comp.os.minix so we don't have to guess or constantly peruse the minix group. _______________________________________________________________________________ -- Shawn R. Blair ~ shawn@jpr.com -- -- ...murphy!jpradley!rpmc!{srblair!}shawn (hourly) -- -- uunet!sir-alan!admiral!rpmc!{srblair!}shawn (weekly) --