Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ames!amdcad!sun!texsun!sundc!hadron!inco!mack From: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: A rehash (but yet important) of an old issue. Message-ID: <405@inco.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 18:06:01 EDT Article-I.D.: inco.405 Posted: Thu Aug 27 18:06:01 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 00:49:09 EDT References: <7130@e.ms.uky.edu> <8482@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: McDonnell Douglas-INCO, McLean, VA Lines: 32 Summary: Making comp.sources.wanted obsolete (almost) Xref: mnetor news.admin:933 news.groups:1413 In article <8482@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: [about requests in comp.sources.wanted] > And WHY don't people want to read such requests? Probably because there > are a lot of them, they aren't very interesting, they seldom ask for what > a particular reader can supply, one doesn't get paid to read them, and life > is too short already. Unfortunately for the posters, these are legitimate > and convincing reasons. I'm not so sure about this. I read comp.sources.wanted and try to help. Generally, I only respond if the requesting site is within 3-4 hops of me, because I've always assumed that if it's farther away, someone else's response will get there first and mine will be redundant and a waste of net bandwidth. (As a leaf site, I worry about such things.) A partial solution to this problem is having a fair number of autoarchive sites, i.e., archive sites with filters set up that will automagically mail out a source file based on the Subject: line in incoming mail. Rich Salz is working on something along these lines, I believe. (Yes, I'm willing to act as such a site if the autoarchive software is available. I'm not sure how happy the sites upstream of me would be about this.) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dave Mack (from Mack's Bedroom :<) McDonnell Douglas-Inco, Inc. DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed 8201 Greensboro Drive are my own and in no way reflect the McLean, VA 22102 views of McDonnell Douglas or its (703)883-3911 subsidiaries. ...!seismo!sundc!hadron!inco!mack ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++