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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Clarification of `contrib' on zap requested
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Date: 16 Mar 88 13:29:53 GMT
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> Could someone clarify the status of the `contrib' directory on zap?
> 
> From what I can tell offhand, the following things which are still
> available on zap have been included with X.V11.R2:
> 	vtobdf.shar	clue	andrew	puzzle.tar	pex.encoding	Xr11

Cleaning up redundant stuff from zap.mit.edu:/contrib has not been high
on our priority list.  It probably should be, as the X11R2 distribution
contains fixes from some of the contributors.

I would like to take the attitute that things in /contrib are the
responsibility of the contributor, including removing a submission
when it is obsolete.