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From: daveb@geac.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Suggestion about repetitive requests for sources
Message-ID: <1785@geac.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 08:24:02 EST
Article-I.D.: geac.1785
Posted: Fri Nov  6 08:24:02 1987
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Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
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Keywords: suggestion bandwidth source requests

In article <2637@megaron.arizona.edu> rupley@arizona.edu (John Rupley) writes:
| Almost each day one finds requests in comp.sources/.sys/.unix 
| for certain software, e.g., Microemacs, arc/zoo, uu{en/de}code, etc.
|  ... Each *week* post in comp.sources.d:
| 	(1) a list of the sources believed (by comp.sources moderator?) 
| to be the most frequently wanted, with a source for the source (needed 
| because the current Microemacs and various other sources are not found 
| on some comp.sources archive sites).  
| 	(2) a statement that one should read the less frequently posted
| v*.info/.list files, ie RTFM.

 Er, could we have a weekly/monthly message to look in the FM
instead? And an explanation of where the FM is... (When I switched
from Multics to Unix I use to wonder where "message 1" of each group
had disappeared to.. I found their equivalents in a separate
newsgouup!)

--dave (huh? what manual?) c-b
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