Xref: utzoo news.groups:2065 comp.sources.bugs:632 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: comp.sources.games.bugs Message-ID: <1779@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 29 Dec 87 06:47:30 GMT References: <559@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 40 In article <559@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> jwa@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (James Anderson) writes: >I am of the opinion that it would be a big mistake for anyone with an >interest in games to vote for the formation of this group. Several of the people who've done most of the recent modifications to "nethack" disagree with you; they've already voted for the group, because it will consolidate the bug reports in one place. Don't worry; if you get comp.sources.games it's almost certain that you'll get comp.sources.games.bugs. If you don't, you won't, but why get fixes to software you don't receive? If you're able to receive the software from somewhere else, you can be equally resourceful with patches. I play hack and warp myself; I'm no enemy of games. It's just that the game bugs come in waves and drown everything else out, and I'd like a low-volume group for discussing bugs in non-game software. As for those that argue that there should be a bugs group for each sources group: one could also argue that since we have rec.music.gdead we should have a group for every rock band in existence. We don't because there isn't the volume for it. As for those that would rather have comp.bugs.games (none of you have sent mail but I've seen a few postings) as a news administrator I'm trying to end up with simple /usr/lib/news/sys files for everyone. Sites not passing comp.sources.games won't pass the bug fixes, automatically. By the way, the vote so far is 99 to 6 in favor of the new group, with yes votes from Canada, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia as well as lots from the USA. I expect that it'll all be over by the new year (100 more yes votes than no votes are required). I'm still collecting votes. They must be mailed to me to count; I haven't been counting posted votes. Oh, Bob Webber: no other software is any more important than games? Wow. How do I get a job at your company? -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,sun,decwrl,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck Old internet mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net