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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: net.sources
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Date: Sat, 14-Jul-84 01:12:39 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 14 01:12:39 1984
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I have been getting mail back on my flame about ``stop putting the
I want a foo for my bar'' stuff in net.sources. There are a lot
of people who say ``but a lot of people don't read net.wanted,
so to reach them I have to post to net.sources''. Some other
people are saying the same thing about net.bugs.

You people miss the point. Nobody is forced to read any newsgroup
that they don't want to. If somebody is not reading net.wanted, it
is presumably because they don't want to see ``I want a foo''
notices. No matter how much you need them to help you, they have
every right to not help you at all. If you keep posting to net.sources
they will only unsubscribe from that as well.

I think that bug fixes can go to net.sources. Bug *reports* however,
are another story. Sned them to the author of the program. Also, it
would be very nice if somebody fixed 42 bugs in some net.sources
offerning and then posted the fixed version, rather than posting
the 42 fixes one at a time.

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura