Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!tekgen!teksce!dales
From: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cross posting (IPC) stuff to .tech?
Message-ID: <1167@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 88 04:07:55 GMT
References: <7722@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: dales@teksce.UUCP (Dale Snell)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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Summary: Keep 'em coming, folks!

In article <7722@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> pete@violet.berkeley.edu
(Pete Goodeve) writes:
>
>Because of the uncertain status of comp.sys.amiga.tech, I've been cross
>posting my articles on IPC here as well as on .tech (where I think they
>properly belong).  Other people have been doing the same thing, but
>someone has objected to this policy.
>
>My assumption is that people who receive .tech will follow the discussion
>more comfortably there, but those who don't will not be shut out.  What
>do others think?  Is anyone reading this stuff that can't get .tech?
>(Is anybody READING this stuff...?)  Feedback please.  Thanks.
>
>						-- Pete --

Pete,

     *Please,* keep cross-posting.  As near as I can tell, the .tech
group isn't real yet; certainly we don't have it here on teksce.  From
something Gene Spafford (sp?) said in news.groups, it could be months
before every site on the net has .tech.  Now, tektronix is a backbone
site, so it should get it within about a week of its creation, but what
about the rest of the folks?  (Message propagation is weird; I see
replys to messages, then see the original a week or so later.)
Cross-posting also does not take up any more file space for those who
already have .tech, so there is no harm in it.

     I really do read this stuff!  I'm very new to the Amiga, so I haven't
had anything to contribute to the discussion, but I find it fascinating.
Only one point:  Make the protocol general enough so that *anything* can
be passed between programs.  Perhaps the IPC could be used in the
"workbench pipes" that are being discussed in another thread.

                                          --dds

p.s.
     Gee, my first posting.  Hope I didn't foul things up too bad.  Now,
lessee, I should have an appropriate signature...


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