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From: WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA ("Frank J. Wancho")
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Posting cp/m sources and binaries
Message-ID: <WANCHO.12401248154.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
Date: 26 May 88 00:10:00 GMT
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	 a)  Mail-server on Simtel20 that gives usenet folk access to
	     simtel20 archives.  

	     This was tried but turned off due to excess burden of the
	     simtel20 machine.

That's part of the story.  The other part was that the server was
overburdening the network resources and the intermediate hosts
relaying the mail files.  Toward the end, the output volume probably
exceeded the combined total of all the other hosts on the net.

	 b)  A new USENET group for binaries and sources:

	 		comp.os.cpm.sources

		(and allow both binaries and sources).

	     This new group would NOT be gatewayed the the ARPA world.

This is probably the best overall solution, provided that Keith is
able to subscribe somehow.

Bear in mind that the original reason for starting our archives in the
first place was, and still is, to shift the load off the mail systems.

--Frank