Xref: utzoo comp.sources.d:6977 news.admin:14587 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!abvax!iccgcc!herrickd From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.admin Subject: Re: UK Copyright libraries and Usenet Message-ID: <4660.283b7d00@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Date: 23 May 91 13:27:44 GMT References: <3amo22w164w@mantis.co.uk> <10508@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> <4592.283113da@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <1991May16.050935.29882@newshost.anu.edu.au> Followup-To: comp.sources.d Lines: 27 In article , emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: [probably I should wait for the archive administration group, but Ed raised the subject now - i'm trying to keep in in news.admin] > expect to see from it. For that matter, no one is funding the > production of comp.archives yet -- I'm looking at it as a venture that > has to be self-supporting (i.e. making money from user fees or > provided under contract to some funding agency) within the next two > years or I'll pack up shop and stop doing it. Ignoring the question of why you do it, I've been watching comp.archives and wondering HOW you do it. You can't possibly read 500 newsgroups looking for postings that identify repositories. Can you? You recently doubled the effort of making the posting by adding that verification of the accessibility of the material. So, is MSEN studying artificial intelligence? Does a VP Research have time to be working on a dissertation about information retrieval that is analagous to snatching a drink from a fire hose? I'm new here (my first toe wetting was near a year ago, how many years will i feel obliged to say that). However, even as a newcomer, I have some feeling for the magnitude of the service to the community at large represented by comp.archives. Watching the traffic in it, I don't believe half the authors know it exists - you bring in some odd things. dan herrick herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com