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From: gus@Shasta.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.news.group
Subject: Re: A way to save net.sources.mac
Message-ID: <1557@Shasta.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 18:10:07 EST
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> One simple rule: POST NOTHING NOT WRITTEN OR MODIFIED BY YOURSELF.

This certainly does not work because not everyone has access to every net
and/or user group. Cross postings SHOULD be encouraged as long as each
person knows what is already on that particular net/archive. I agree that
posting N copies of something by N people around the country is wasteful,
but this, in general, has not been a major problem on net.sources.mac.

Often user groups GET their programs from the net. I know first hand because
I am on the committy that creates disks for the Stanford Mac User Group.
Cross-postings help us a lot.