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Subject: Program sources via MAIL
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Date: Thu, 3-Jul-86 12:37:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  3 12:37:00 1986
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There is some interesting confusion out there in the mail land. Clearly
some people are assuming things that are just not true or are impractical
or miss the point.

Suggestions:
	- Tailor the USENET configuration information to prune the list.
	  Alas CMU is not primarily a USENET site. Most mail and bboard
	  is thru the mail and not thru netnews software.
	- This has been going on for sometime now. Everyone makes mistakes
	  and everyone complains so I don't complain unless it seems that
	  the things seem too quiet.
	  Oh yea, I have been on the ARPANET at least 8 years and on the
	  info-vax mailing list for at least 4.
	- Only files smaller then size X should be sent....people are not
	  programs....you can't expect them to behave like programs. It is
	  a hard enough trick to get people to send list additions to
	  <listname>-request@host.
	- Mail is the only way to get sources in broken-net-land. Hey why
	  should everyone suffer because of your wedged net? What is wrong
	  with a seperate mailing list or handling it by request? The quiet
	  or non-existant response confirms my belief they are just yelling
	  because I propose a change.

The info-vax list and associated netnews groups covers are large audience and
when audiences are that large maintaing the status quo is a tendency. But
just like there are sites that can only get programs via mail there are
sites that large pieces of mail to many individual causes service slow
down for mail and takes up a good chunk of disk space. Why do I care? I
maintain a good number of these systems's mail systems...

Rudy Nedved
Facilities Staff
Computer Science/Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University