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From: marcus@illusion.UUCP (Marcus Hall)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Newsgroup proposal: archive announcements
Message-ID: <174@illusion.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 16:55:44 GMT
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Reply-To: marcus@illusion.UUCP (Marcus Hall)
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In article <8084@eddie.MIT.EDU> wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
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>I propose a moderated newsgroup, to be named misc.archives or
>comp.archives. A misc heading seems more appropriate to me, since
>there is more out there than just source code. There would be two main
>functions of the group. The moderator (myself?) woulf send out new
>announcements as they are received, and incorporate them into a master
>list. The master list would be reposted at regular intervals. I also
>see a list in index format. "mh -- available from udel.edu" This would
>facilitate locating specific packages.
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>I'm taking votes on this until March 3. Send them to
>wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU or mit-eddie!wisner.
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>..bill

Before going off and creating yet another newsgroup, I think that it would
pay to look at what newsgroups currently exist that would be appropriate
for this.  There is a newsgroup news.lists which gets lists periodically
reposted already.  Looking at the articles spooled there, I see newsgroup
statistics, Some how-to articles, list of moderators, publicly accessible
mailing lists, list of active newsgroups, and changes to various lists.

It seems that the periodic posting of a list of archive sites would fit
nicely into this group.  As for posting new archive information, is there
really a lot of new information that can't wait for the periodic reposting?
Can this traffic hapily exist in comp.sources.d?

Currently, archive information is posted periodically in comp.sources.unix
(or is it comp.sources.misc, possibly both) but that inforation is only for
archives for those groups.  I agree that the archive information is very
useful and not very easily located (in general), but I'm not convinced that
there is any need for another newsgroup devoted solely to archive information.

Marcus Hall
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