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From: mclek@dcatla.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Archives for Commodore
Message-ID: <18192@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 19:10:50 GMT
References: <844@alzabo.UUCP> <16958@usc.edu>
Reply-To: mclek@sunb.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Organization: DCA Inc., Alpharetta, GA
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In article <16958@usc.edu> acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu) writes:
>(BTW, why there is no "comp.binaries.cbm" or "comp.sources.cbm"?.  Is this
>a conspiration against Commodore users or what?)

No, just not enough people reading comp.sys.cbm to justify it.  Someone
could always create alt.binaries.cbm, but I wouldn't bet on a lot of sites
carrying it.

I *think* those blessed with FTP (not me) can get Kermit 2.2 that way,
but I don't know of any other 8-bit CBM software getting archived these days.

People have always been encouraged to post *source* here -- with one lone
squawk about 2 yrs. ago when about 1/2 Meg of source got sent out all at once.
That easy fix for that is to just dribble it out in small chunks for a few
weeks (also makes it easier to mail pieces to people who don't get it).

For binaries, there's no big problem with posting really popular things like
Kermit & DesTerm -- as long as it doesn't happen that often.  It's a matter
of traffic vs. the number of readers; lots of traffic in a low-readership group
like this one will surely attract the attention of the net.gods.

Of course, there's always BBSes.  With FidoNet gateways to Usenet in place,
maybe a friendly sysop could set up an "archive" for software of interest.
Or even better, one is already set up & we don't know about it....
-- 
Larry Kollar	...!gatech!dcatla!mclek
If potatoes aren't computers, why are there potato chips and potato bugs?