Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Call for discussion: comp.sources.archives Message-ID: <12292@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 24 Aug 88 21:59:21 GMT References: <222@pigs.UUCP> <6031@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <236@pigs.UUCP> <478@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR <362@pigs.UUCP> <389@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 36 As quoted from <389@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> by greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman): +--------------- | In article <362@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes: | >how about creating a newsgroup for the sole purpose of posting archive | >information to? i am suggesting we create a new group, comp.sources.archives | >for the posting of archive site information. it can be an unmoderated | >group to make it easier for people to update their sites information, | >and discuss problems with using various archive sites. | | In all of the *moderated* comp.sources groups to which I subscribe, | the moderator periodically posts information regarding submissions and | archive sites. I have found a number of archive servers in this | manner without difficulty. | | However, if others perceive a need for a specific place to post this | information, such as for *unmoderated* groups, I would not object and | would cast a "yes" vote, as these archive sites provide a very useful | service to the net. +--------------- Some comments on this: (1) The moderator doesn't always know *all* the sites that keep an archive. I only know if the person running the archive tells me. (2) Such archive postings as would be posted to the proposed newsgroup could go into greater detail as to how to access the archives. Compare my archive posting to those for "killer" and "osu-cis", for example. (3) The group would also constitute a "cross-index" by archive site, whereas modreators' lists are by newsgroup. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery DELPHI: ALLBERY For comp.sources.misc send mail to ncoast!sources-misc