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Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: new moderated newsgroup(s) for Atari ST software distrbution
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 20:00:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 20:00:31 1987
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>	Should the group be named comp.sources.atari.st or
>	comp.atari.st.sources ?

One reason to choose "comp.atari.st.sources":
People interested in atari.st have fewer places to have to look,
closer to home, so to speak.

>	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
>	arguments 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)

Right now, the number of items that are discussion far exceed the number
of items that are either binary or source.  I suggest that one group
be created for the time being -- for both.  Then, if that group gets
too big, it can be split, into "sources" and "binary".

>	If we decide to have a binaries group, in what form do we
>	distribute the binaries ?

I suggest that we allow the users to decide.  The proliferation of
variations of UUDECODE attests to the weaknesses of the original.
Eventually the dust will settle on this one.

>	Should we have a moderated ask-atari group ?
	
Sure.  Good idea.

-- 
  Prof. L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. 
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