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From: don@zl2tnm.gp.co.nz (Don Stokes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Posting Sources (was Re: tetris and posting sources)
Keywords: sources archiving
Message-ID: <5k8633w163w@zl2tnm.gp.co.nz>
Date: 8 Jun 91 00:56:39 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.153842.16414@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM>
Organization: Computer Archaeologists
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kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield) writes:

> In the absence of a comp.sources.coherent newsgroup, I would like to see 
> Coherent sources posted to comp.sources.misc so that they would be archived 
> and available to people in the future.  The archiving for alt.sources is 
> spotty at best.

Hang on....

comp.os.coherent is a Coherent-specific group.  comp.sources.misc isn't.

I (for example) don't get comp.sources.misc -- I take a limited feed
from a less limited feed that also doesn't get c.s.m, since most of
c.s.m is of no interest to me or my feed site.

Fortunately for me, I happen to be sysadmin of both sites 8-) so can
arrange this if necessary (but would rather not), however, this may not
be convenient to other sites.  It would certainly be a retrograde step
for uucp-only sites that have to pay for news -- they're still stuck
with no ftp and expensive calls to mwcbbs (tolls are prohibitive at
2400bps from outside the U.S.), and to get sources by carrying
comp.sources.misc would mean carrying (and paying for) a whole lot of
stuff that isn't really usable.

Really, comp.os.coherent is the place for Coherent-specific stuff, is it
not?

If the consensus is that the place to put stuff is c.s.m, I'd go with
that -- but I'm not keen.

> There has been a lot of discussion about where to post sources earlier in thi
> group.  Some wanted all sources posted to this group.  Some wanted to create
> comp.sources.coherent.  Others wanted to merge Minix and Coherent sources 
> into a small unix sources group.(Yuk!)  Some thought it was too soon after 
> this group's creation to form a sources group.

The ultimate solution is a separate sources newsgroup -- whether it can
be got past a vote is another matter entirely however....


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