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From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: comp.sources.archives
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Date: 27 Aug 88 19:57:35 GMT
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[ i am going to start moving all of my followups and articles to news.groups
  for the time when this actually comes to a vote.  the suggestion by
  t. w. wells is a very good one.  we might just have something here ... ]

In article <621@proxftl.UUCP> bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>I'd suggest two groups: comp.sources.archives and
>comp.sources.archives.d, the first for posting information on how
>to access various archives, the second for discussion of problems
>accessing archives (path xyzzy!abcd!foobar didn't work!  Help!),
>problems with archiving sites (I got bletch.Z from site glorch
>and it wouldn't decompress!), archiving systems themselves (try
>Bugaboo SW's archive server, wow!), and of anything else relating
>to archives and archiving.

i hadn't considered this approach.  the original suggestion was for
an unmoderated newgroup, but with this two group attack it would
be worthwhile to have the first group moderated.  i'm not sure how
good an idea having discussion regarding archive software itself
since any such code would be o/s or machine dependent.  how many
people are running TOPS-20 on a DECSystem-20 this week?

the only difficulty i see with this is getting two groups created at
once.  if anyone in the backbone cabal would like to comment on
making two new groups at the same time i would be more than willing
to listen.

>Alternatively, I'd suggest that there be an established way of
>identifying which postings contained archive information (like a
>specially formatted subject line) so that we can find the
>information we want easily.

definitely.  if the first suggestion of yours doesn't fly then this
would be the only surefire way to insure people can use the info
present.

- john.
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