ron@brl-smoke.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (02/10/86)
> I'm so po'ed about some mail I got that I feel compelled to tell > tell whole net. There is no net.sources.discussion, so I'm posting to > net.sources. Any MORE flames about that to /dev/null! > > 3. If you have something long that is likely to be useful > to only a few people (like a 9900 cross assembler), I think it is > quite appropriate to announce you have the source, and will either > post or mail depending on the number of replies. I've read in some > group that the cutoff is either around 20 or 100, depending on whose > study you believe - if you have more than 20 (or 100, maybe someone > knows the real number) interested sites, then post, otherwise mail > directly. If you announce in this manner, be prepared for nasty mail > from the secret police. I say ignore it. Do what is RIGHT, and don't > be afraid of some twits. > Actually, there are much better places. The problem with posting anything that is not source to net.sources (including your announcement about the secret police) is that many sites do not expire net.sources or set a very long expiration time. It is a royal pain that I have to go through and delete crap such as request for sources, announcements of sources, discussions on what is valid for net.sources, etc...from the source directory so I will have enough room to keep archiving new sources. There exist newsgroups for all of the things that I have mentioned so there is no reason for sending them to net.sources. PERIOD. -Ron