Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!smoke.cs.toronto.edu!moraes Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) Subject: Re: copyright status and future development of comp.archives Message-ID: <91Jun27.002803edt.1259@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto References: <1991Jun26.190247.24577@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> Date: 27 Jun 91 04:28:44 GMT Lines: 50 vk@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (vivek.kalra) writes: >But isn't that what happens in *every* moderated news group? Not quite -- in most (all?) moderated newsgroups, people mail submissions to the moderator who filters them. (Brad may trawl rec.humor for funny pieces?) In comp.archives, the moderator trawls a large selection of news looking for appropriate articles and reposts them after some editing. (addition of Archive-name:, Archive-directory:, the new verification stuff, occasional deletion of the text of a patch or source). There's a difference -- Ed can probably give us stats on how much filtering he does manually and the amount of filtering done automatically. comp.archives has grown a lot since it started -- for your amusement, some stats (compression is usually 50-60%) from a comp.archives archive are enclosed. I can understand Ed's desire to convert it to a commercial service or a funded service. The alternative is to find a new moderator or moderators. For example, I doubt that anyone at UToronto, either in the CS dept or Information Science faculty would be seriously interested in actually paying money for newsgroups like msen.*, even if they contain pointers to useful ftp'able software. One of these days, maybe we'll convince the University that information is valuable even if it is in electronic form. (We *know* that information in an electronic form definitely can't be more valuable than the paper form, of course!) And that they should start spending a small fraction of what they spend on libraries on an electronic archive. Mark. --- -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 21913 Feb 18 1990 archive.misc.1988.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 261829 Feb 18 1990 archive.misc.1989.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 280238 Feb 18 1990 archive.misc.1990.01.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 442000 Feb 28 1990 archive.misc.1990.02.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 344581 Mar 31 1990 archive.misc.1990.03.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 280461 Apr 30 1990 archive.misc.1990.04.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 335888 May 31 1990 archive.misc.1990.05.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 218381 Jun 30 1990 archive.misc.1990.06.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 309505 Jul 31 1990 archive.misc.1990.07.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 347173 Aug 30 1990 archive.misc.1990.08.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 444306 Sep 30 1990 archive.misc.1990.09.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 399805 Oct 30 1990 archive.misc.1990.10.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 299339 Nov 28 1990 archive.misc.1990.11.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 498101 Dec 30 20:20 archive.misc.1990.12.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 537419 Jan 31 08:21 archive.misc.1991.01.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 594323 Feb 28 20:20 archive.misc.1991.02.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 848487 Mar 31 20:20 archive.misc.1991.03.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 729153 Apr 26 20:20 archive.misc.1991.04.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 moraes 836962 May 31 08:20 archive.misc.1991.05.Z