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From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Net.sources.d and mods to software.
Message-ID: <366@timeinc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 10:37:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: timeinc.366
Posted: Tue Jul 30 10:37:37 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Aug-85 06:32:02 EDT
Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Organization: Time, Inc. - New York
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Summary: 


The votes are in:  15 yes, 1 no regarding the following:
(ME)

>I suggest the creation of a net.sources.d. 

Some people suggested a similiar newsgroup for other net.sources
newsgroups, including the mac group.  I'd suggest letting the
mac people decide for themselves.

Some of the older news programs have no choice about archiving
all net.source.* groups.  Get the updated programs.



>Additionally, the followup line in a net.sources article should
>be forced to be either net.sources.bugs, or net.sources.d, unless
>the posting in response is by the author themself.

Additionally, it was suggested that there be someway of enforcing
that an original posting only have source in it.  Some mentioned
mechanical methods, but that seems sorta flakey.  I suggest
an additional question in the news software when posting to net.sources:

Is this source code? [n]

If the answer is 'no' then pop it over to net.sources.d

True, we'll get some twits asking for a report on the
entire Xinu package (not a bad idea anyway), but it should drop
WAY down.

Okay...I did the easy part (taking the vote)...could one
of the net.gods create the group?  And what about the
updates to the programs?


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