Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: One Last Wish Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 04:33:53 GMT References: <19265@rpp386.cactus.org> <1991May13.012237.27832@convex.com> <19267@rpp386.cactus.org> <1991May13.212809.25299@convex.com> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 39 In-Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM's message of 13 May 91 21:28:09 GMT In article <1991May13.212809.25299@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: This is becoming too personal. I'll say it again: I have no desire to be a moderator, I'd just like the community to practice sound judgment. If you really believe that it's good to post things better destined for alt.sourced.wanted and alt.sources.d into alt.sources, then we shall never agree on this matter. Sigh. For a while I combed through the vast swamp of usenet looking for sources postings that weren't posted to alt.sources, tidied them up ever so slightly, and reposted them to the alt.sources group in a reasonable way. In exchange for a little bit of bandwidth consumed, the signal to noise ratio of alt.sources got much better. (review the contents of the alt.sources archive on wuarchive.wustl.edu to see the results.) The community tended to respond in kind, and seeing a sources group that had sources in it the community tended to post sources to it. Unfortunately (I guess), my filters for finding errantly posted but eminently useful sources postings are not all that good, and I had to discontinue the service. Besides, there was a lingering 5% discontent with what I was doing, and answering hate mail is never fun. So I quit. If you want sources in alt.sources, post sources. More will follow. Complaining or harrassing people will just create enemies and hate mail. -- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com "(6) The Plan shall identify how agencies and departments can collaborate to ... expand efforts to improve, document, and evaluate unclassified public-domain software developed by federally-funded researchers and other software, including federally-funded educational and training software; " "High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, S. 272"