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Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Wonderful sources - Cryptic names
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 21:36:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 21:36:51 1987
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Summary: Short summaries wanted ahead

[This was posted to comp.sources.misc; I place it here because it is a
valid complaint.

Note that my "charter" as moderator requires me to get sources out as fast
as possible; in particular, this does NOT include writing summaries.  It
is up to the author of a submission to doocument it adequately.  ++bsa]

Many interesting and valuable sources have been published here.
The only thing I have to "complain" abt is:

You have to guess what the author meant when giving the source
such a name. If you are looking at those articles it would be
a good idea to find a short abstract BEFORE any shell scripts
(snip---snip---snip) starts...

It is somtimes not very easy to determine the use of a 13 part
distribution without reading all 14 packages first, just to see:
it's nothing for me.

So: why not publish a -short- abstract first, giving purpose,
target system(s) etc.?

-Rupert Mohr

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