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From: stevel@haddock.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: net.sources.pc - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 10-Dec-83 23:40:02 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 10 23:40:02 1983
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haddock!stevel    Dec  5 12:26:00 1983

net.sources.pc does not solve the problem. Posting programs once
only allows them to be picked up if you see them. The program
directories on the ARPA net allow one to go get them anytime.

What is needed is for someone to maintain a directory of sources
and have an automated way for people to retrieve them. Say a mail
message the first line of wich is an mail  path and the following
lines are the programs to send. Any BSD system can make an alias
to pass this into a program that would then send the program to
the addresse on the first line. It would be nice for net.sources
to be handled this way.

The first posting could be over the net and then people who
missed it or came along later could request a copy. I for one
would like to be able to get to the CPM sources on the ARPA net.
I can think of several more groups that would like to have
archives if the technology were in place to make it happen on the
UUCP network.

Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {ucbvax|ihnp4}!cbosgd!ima!stevel