From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: Collecting VAX software
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.444
Posted: Mon Dec 20 17:23:39 1982
Received: Tue Dec 21 08:45:33 1982

>From Feinler@SRI-NIC  Sat Dec 18 15:28:27 1982
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Remailed-From: the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow  <Geoff5 at SRI-CSL>
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Hi,

This is Jake Feinler at the NIC and I would like to comment
on your discussion of gathering VAX software.  The NIC is
actually tasked with collecting such info around the net.
However, there is so much happening on the VAXes that we
would be hard put to keep up with it all.  I would like to see such
a collection and would like it to be maintained on the NIC machine,
for which I can provide space.  I would also like to have some
coordination as to how the info is collected.  What happens is
everyone starts going around collecting everything and the people
who provide the info start saying 'enough, already!'.  So that is the concern.

Stew, did you have in mind to have people respond to INFO-VAX.  That
would make sense since the interest group already exists and probably
has as members most of the interested parties.  

Think the idea of sharing the outcome with DECUS is also a good one,
assuming they are interested which I am sure they are.

Regards,

Jake Feinler/NIC
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