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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Net.sources.d and mods to software.
Message-ID: <321@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 15:56:31 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  4 15:56:31 1985
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itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List) <295@luke.UUCP>:

>>>I suggest the creation of a net.sources.d. 
>>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
>>
>>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?
>
>      Before any action is taken  on  this  prayer,  could  we  have  some
>      discussion  of net.sources vs. mod.sources?  I have submitted to and
>
>      Isn't it  time  for  the  demise  of  net.sources  rather  than  its
>      expansion?
>
>      I'm in favor of separating  the  discussion  and  patches  from  the
>      sources,  but  John  does  this admirably in mod.sources.  Let's not
>      expand where consolidation should be the order of the day.

This is a whole 'nother issue--whether to kill net.sources.  I would suggest
that, while a STRONG campaign be waged to keep as many sources as possible in
mod.sources, that net.sources not be killed till it has actually petered out,
and that for the time being there be a net.sources.d to hasten the petering out
process.  Maybe some net.holy site(s) would have the power to shunt non source
code articles in net.sources over to net.sources.d (either manually or on a
criterion of 50 lines of non-header text or less, accompanied by a cancel of
the original article).  Maybe there would be a way of having net.sources fun-
nel into the mod.sources moderator who would archive them, post in mod.sources,
then cancel the originals or replace with a message of where they are?
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