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From: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.wanted,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: comp.sources.archives
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Date: 30 Aug 88 03:46:06 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <231@acheron.UUCP> clarke@acheron.UUCP (Ed Clarke) writes:
: Why don't you put archive information in the 'misc' section of your
: uucp map entry?  If you use the keyword ARCHIVE, it can be searched
: with a perl script or even just grep.  No moderator required and also
: no new newsgroup.

I have no real idea of what you are proposing.  However, if you
are supposing that there is something that uucp sites could do to
collect this information easily, you may be right, but this is
irrelevant.  Just what fraction of the sites on Usenet do you
think are uucp sites?  Judging by the posting volume, that number
might be very small.  And in any case, a piecemeal solution to
the problem of finding archives is not going to very
satisfactory.  (OK, you uucp sites do A; you bitnet sites do B;
you arpa ...).  Far better for there to be a newsgroup.

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Bill
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