Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!attctc!usource!daveg From: daveg@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US (Dave Goodman) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: binary/source postings Message-ID: <373@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US> Date: 14 Feb 90 01:22:12 GMT Distribution: na Organization: UniSource, Inc. -- Sarasota, FL Lines: 61 I am posting the following for David Goodenough , who is temporarily unable to post to this group. Replies to him, please. --- cut here --- cut here --- cut here --- cut here --- cut here --- Subject: binary/source postings Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm anasaz!chad (Chad Larson) says: > A couple of years ago, I posted to this group the source to a utility > I wrote. I was beaten up rather roughly for having done so. My > recollection is that this group was gatewayed onto the Internet > somehow and that someone there had a restriction on source and/or > binaries floating by. They threatened (or were required, I forget) to > break the gateway rather than allow programs to transit their systems. > > Is this still so? Are binaries or source postings discouraged (or > worse, punished)? Is this group constrained to be discussions of old > systems and mutual help in supporting them? This is somewhat the case. Although my true identity is dg@lakart.UUCP, I get this via the Internet mailing list INFO-CPM. Even though I would love to see binaries and source posted here, I have to agree with the Internet people that limits need to be placed: lakart.UUCP is now a CP/M machine, and I don't have infinite space on my spool drive (D:) which is where my mail hangs out. On the other side of the coin, I would agree that a mechanism for posting source and binaries would be useful (I'd kill for the opportunity to post QTERM V4.2g - it's now available.....), but I'd suggest that a (possibly moderated) newsgroup comp.os.cpm.programs would be needed. I purposely didn't say comp.os.cpm.sources or comp.os.cpm.binaries, since I believe that the most benefit would come from a newsgroup devoted to both. Your mission (should you chose to accept it) is to run the discussion, and the vote, and see if comp.os.cpm.programs can get created. I would, however, add the following: Keith Petersen (in a reply to the above posting by Chad Larson) says: > There is an excellent public domain archive at SIMTEL20 which is > accessable by all readers of this newsgroup. The problem is that for > the past two years there has only been ONE reader who has sent a > program contribution to the archives. I can't do it all myself. WRONG!!!!! - it is only by a miracle of UUCP <--> Internet and Internet <--> Bitnet gatewaying that I can get stuff from SIMTEL20. Keith, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE remember that many .UUCP sites _CAN'T_ FTP, and thus are cut off from SIMTEL20. I'm able to access the BITNET server at NDSUVM1, but even that's flakey at best: about 20 to 30% of requests I send wind up in the bit bucket somewhere. The day I'm able to hook lakart.UUCP (as it is now - pallio.UUCP originally) to the Intenet, and issue a FTP request will probably go down in history along with the day Eniac was first powered up: there is only so much a 4MHz Z80A can do :-) -- dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ..... !harvard!xait!lakart!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%lakart.uucp@xait.xerox.com +---+