jlh@loral.UUCP (A Casual Observer) (11/04/85)
In article <245@mit-eddie.UUCP>, gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) writes: > I propose that we remove net.sources and only allow the posting of > sources in mod.sources.* for the following reasons: > I DISAGREE! It seems that net.sources is one of the postive factors of netnews. I have learned quite a bit by seeing how other people do things, and have gotten several interesting and useful programs from here. > Net.sources falls prey to the repeated information problem -- too many > repostings of old information. Examples: > > * Please repost hack version 9000 ... > * I have a program that prints files backwards, sideways, upside > down ... > * Here is a sendmail.cf that runs rings around Mars ... > * etc., etc. > This is a problem in all groups. In the case of repost hack version 45 e 1284.5 the authors seem to ignore requests for reposts, preferring instead to send mail. I too got disgusted at the number of people with their own useless methods of printing files backwards, but these things happen when you get a large group of people together. And just because you don't like a sendmail that runs rings around Mars doesn't make the program useless. It's only when it's the 45,932 version of the damn thing it gets useles. Finally, this is a totally inappropriate (sp?) place for this discussion and I vote we move it elsewhere, like net.flame or net.netnews. Anybody responding to this please don't put your responce in net.sources, do as I say, not as I do.