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From: mike@array.UUCP (Mike Willett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: tetris and posting sources
Summary: posting sources and such
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Date: 5 Jun 91 22:18:15 GMT
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> Points taken, although other people (including Joachim) have disagreed
> with you.  Would it be better to post Coherent sources on, say,
> alt.sources or comp.sources.misc?

	The discussion keeps going "to post or not to post"...

	I think the issues are well taken, and that we should try to 
	work to the abilities of the c.os.c readers.  After reading 
	this group since its conception, I would summarize **some** of 
	the readership as having small disk space, low speed modems, 
	paying for bytes from their feeder site.  I would expect a lot
	of them not to have access to a larger *nix system capable of
	archvival or temporary free storage of large sources.
	
	These are all  genuine concerns about paying for large amounts 
	of data they may not want, in whatever form.

	So I would like to see the discussion move towards alternatives 
	to get the data to people that want it, without having to sift
	through major volumes of sources found in other groups.

	Perhaps we should look at alternate vehicles of distribution, such
	as a "sources only" mailing list, or an archive server similar to
	that of clarkson.edu, or of course, a comp.sources.coherent group.

	I would be willing to concider doing a mailing list if the interest
	is there. Please offer other alternatives to what I have talked 
	about above. What other methods that could work for all users?

	--Mike 
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