Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: binaries.apple2 Message-ID: <8804181119.aa23657@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 18 Apr 88 16:01:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 57 Brint Cooper writes: >Mike Jetzer writes: > >> Several people have declared that comp.binaries.apple2 is "here," but we >> aren't getting it here at Marquette U. Could anybody enlighten me as to >> why we don't get it? > > comp.binaries.apple2 is a Usenet news group. It is not a >mailing list. For this group to be available, your site must receive But Mike's on studsys, which IS a UUCP site (or, at least, is an address known to UUCP). Evidently he gets comp.sys.apple. Doesn't receiving one newsgroup imply access to them all? > Everything sent to APPLE2-L will be "posted" to >comp.binaries.apple2. That's good news (how does that happen anyway -- are you relying on Paul Nakada's volunteering? If so, there will be the question of how to keep it going when Paul graduates). "Larry W. Virden" writes: >6000-8000 sites which ONLY have access via uucp to usenet... While I comprehend the point, it seems unlikely that more than than a few score of sites really are breathlessly awaiting comp.binaries.apple2 (after all, there were fewer than 200 votes about starting the group). More to the point is that a SUBSTANTIAL fraction of APPLE2-L's mailing list are UUCP addresses. Receiving APPLE2-L (even posting things for it) has NOT been an insurmountable difficulty (there have been a few people who have had trouble finding a reliable mailpath from bitnet, but that's typical UUCP isn't it?). There have been several UUCP sites redistributing APPLE2-L, a reasonable means of serving people who have had trouble getting mail directly from brownvm. Do we REALLY need two archive sites? If the LISTSERV software gets fixed so that // JOB FILES-TO="rfc822 address" will work, then it will be possible to retrieve files from APPLE2-L from most UUCP sites. Based on how long it took to get binaries.apple2 in the first place, I'd bet LISTSERV gets fixed before an ftp site is found. BTW re: a possible comp.sources.apple2, or comp.bugs etc., one lesson that should be extracted from the comp.binaries experience is that the best way to assure enough total votes to get a decision is to find someone who is at a gateway with access to USENET and the INTERNET (make friends with folks at Harvard, Berkeley, and other similar places). --------------------- Disclaimer: The "look and feel" of this message is exclusively MINE! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut