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Subject: new moderated newsgroup(s) for Atari ST software distrbution
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Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 13:55:59 EST
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	After talking it over with Mark Horton and Gene Spafford we have 
decided to create one or more moderated newsgroups for atari ST
software distribution. If anyone else has had plans to do this please
contact me by email, however we are pretty far down the road in the
process of creating these groups. The are still a few issues to be
resolved and in the name of creating as much net.confusion as possible,
I would like to open them up to some limited discussion (I say limited
because I would like to get this group started asap).

Issue One:

	Should the group be named comp.sources.atari.st or
	comp.atari.st.sources ?
	(I think that this is a moot point and personally I am given to
	flipping a coin to decide this one.)

Issue Two:
 
	Should there be a seperate group for binary postings without 
	an accompaning source posting ?
	(This is not a trivial problem: on one side there are the
	arguements that blindly executing binary ONLY postings
	can be dangerous to your system, also the purpose of the net
	is to spread knowledge, what knowledge is gained from a binary
	posting? On the other hand there are many authors who wish to
	keep control over their sources for many good reasons (e.g.
	ease of updates)

Issue Three:

	If we decide to have a binaries group, in what form do we
	distribute the binaries ? 
	(There are at least 5 different uuen/decode programs floating
	around, most of which will not decode files encoded by all of
	the others)

Issue Four:

	Should we have a moderated ask-atari group ?
	(I think some of the people at Atari were a little discouraged
	by some of the flaming that they got on the net, possibly a 
	moderated 'pipe-line' for questions to Atari might be an
	alternative)
	
Issue Five:

	have I missed anything ?

I would like to get this started by the end of the month at the latest,
so let's settle issues one and two first.

I would greatly appreciate any positive suggestions etc. that people 
might have on this subject, also helpful hints from other moderators
are gratefully (thanks Mark) accepted.




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