Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!adm!umd5!grebyn!netsys!root From: info-3b2@lamc.UUCP (Info-3b2 Mailer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Please don't create a 3b2.* news distribution! Message-ID: <9751@netsys.COM> Date: 6 Aug 88 16:25:49 GMT Sender: root@netsys.COM Lines: 57 --- Forwarded mail from tis.llnl.gov!lll-tis!mordor!rutgers!att.att.com!ho95c!wcs >From tis.llnl.gov!lll-tis!mordor!rutgers!att.att.com!ho95c!wcs Sat Aug 6 00:31:07 1988 Received: by lamc.UUCP (smail2.5) id AA24778; 6 Aug 88 00:31:07 PDT (Sat) Return-Path: Received: by tis.llnl.gov (5.51++/1.14-TIS) id AA23746; Fri, 5 Aug 88 23:19:47 PDT From: lll-tis!mordor!rutgers!att.att.com!ho95c!wcs Received: by mordor.s1.gov id AA05275; Fri, 5 Aug 88 21:45:44 PDT id AA05275; Fri, 5 Aug 88 21:45:44 PDT Received: by rutgers.edu (5.59/1.15) with UUCP id AA02737; Wed, 3 Aug 88 12:40:36 EDT Date: Wed, 3 Aug 88 12:40:36 EDT Message-Id: <8808031640.AA02737@rutgers.edu> Received: by clyde.ATT.COM (smail2.6) id AA02500; 29 Jul 88 13:39:29 EDT (Fri) To: pacbell!lamc!info-3b2, mimsy!cvl!decuac!netsys!len, wcs Subject: Please don't create a 3b2.* news distribution! Len - I appreciated the information you've posted on making 3B2 boot floppies. If you want to distribute software, *please* don't create a separate set of newsgroups for it! - distributions are a pain to administer, and cut your audience down a lot. - some news software chokes if there are too many newsgroups which there almost are now - there are very few things you can do on a 3B2 that aren't generic UNIX applications (unlike the unix-pc, which has it's own set of screen graphics which aren't generally portable.) It's ok to post an occasional 3B2-specific program to info-3b2 if you want to do things like flash the green and red lights. - there are existing newsgroups which handle portable UNIX sources such as comp.sources.unix (though I've also seen Sun-specific and 4.*BSD-specific and System V-specific sources there.) - there are existing newsgroups like comp.sources.misc and alt.sources which will accept *any* software, except PC binaries - portable source (i.e. most 3B2 programs) is useful to almost everyone, on almost every kind of machine, and most people won't read the 3b2 group # Bill Stewart att!ho95c!wcs 1-201-949-0705 AT&T Bell Labs, Room HO 2G218 # Internet: ho95c.att.com!wcs Holmdel, NJ 07733 --- End of forwarded message from tis.llnl.gov!lll-tis!mordor!rutgers!att.att.com!ho95c!wcs -- To submit articles mail to ..!{pacbell,well,netsys,hoptoad}!lamc!info-3b2 Administravia to info-3b2-request@lamc. Co-ordinator: kdavis@lamc (Ken Davis)