Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!uunet.UU.NET!kent From: kent@uunet.UU.NET (Kent Landfield - comp.sources.misc) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Subject: Re: Posting Sources (was Re: tetris and posting sources) Keywords: sources archiving Message-ID: <1991Jun9.041053.2840@uunet.uu.net> Date: 9 Jun 91 04:10:53 GMT References: <1991Jun4.153842.16414@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> <5k8633w163w@zl2tnm.gp.co.nz> Sender: usenet@uunet.uu.net (UseNet News) Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: uunet.uu.net In article <5k8633w163w@zl2tnm.gp.co.nz> Don Stokes writes: >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. That is too bad. You are missing a lot of good sources lately... Coherent sources too... :-) >kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield) writes: > >> 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.... Creating comp.sources.coherent is the real answer as I have stated before. If you do not try to solve the problem it will continue to pop up every time someone wants to post sources to the "discussion" newsgroup comp.os.coherent. If you want people to contribute sources freely to the community you need to provide them a path to do so that has no "friction" involved. Otherwise, people will not want to hassle with it. To promote the free exchange of software, authors need a channel setup for that purpose. Not one where they become the target of the week for wanting to better the community.... -Kent+ -- Kent Landfield INTERNET: kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM Sterling Software, IMD UUCP: uunet!sparky!kent Phone: (402) 291-8300 FAX: (402) 291-4362 Please send comp.sources.misc-related mail to kent@uunet.uu.net.