chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (06/11/83)
One thing you apparently haven't thought of: Arpa only people CANNOT
post to net.sources! Unless there is a site out there willing to
gateway it, the Arpa people will have to either put up with collecting
requests, or mail to Unix.Emacs@Cmu-Cs-A. The former can be painful
for both the sender and the receiver: the sender waits a while till
the requests stop coming in, types in the mail, hits control-D, and
sees the fateful message: "You have new mail." The latter has just
been flamed at.
So my first suggestion is: Arpa people, carefully include the words
"Source Code" on your subject line. Usenet people, send to net.sources
and put a notice on net.emacs. Then don't be surprised when you get 8
zillion requests from Arpa people. This suffers from the shortcomings
given above. Thus my second suggestion: whoever's gatewaying to/from
Arpa, gateway net.sources too. Set up an Arpa distribution list for it
(and double gateway it if possible).
- Chris ({allegra,seismo}!umcp-cs!chris)ka@spanky.UUCP (06/12/83)
I guess I'd better put in my two cents here. First, any UNIX site on the ARPANET can get on USENET if they want to since ARPANET policy places no limitations on transmitting USENET newsgroups over the ARPANET. Secondly, ARPANET policy allows people on the ARPANET to send mail to people on the UUCP network but not to receive mail from the UUCP network, so that people on the ARPANET should send requests for stuff in net.sources to somebody at a USENET site on the ARPANET, not necessarily the author. Ther reasons for posting to net.sources are twofold: it allows sites with very expensive news links to turn off net.sources, and it makes it easier to find old programs. The pieces of code appearing on the emacs list to date have not been large, so that the former reason at least does not really apply. As for setting up a net.sources gateway, that's really up to the individual ARPANET sites, just as the question of whether or not to join USENET is. Kenneth Almquist