morse@leadsv.UUCP (Terry Morse) (11/06/85)
Let's all stop complaining about the volume in net.sources.mac and start
seriously discussing what to do about it. Here are my two cents:
1) Establish a small group of geographically distributed sites willing to
distribute Mac source (Mac backbone sites, if you will). Those sites
interested in Macs would be the likely candidates.
2) Someone who has a program to contribute mails it to his nearest backbone
site. If the code is not a duplicate, the backbone site passes it on to
the other backbone sites.
3) After the program has been checked out, an abstract is distributed on
net.sources.mac (or some other name) along with a list of backbone sites
where it may be obtained.
4) Persons interested in getting the program mail a request to the nearest
backbone site, specifying source code or binary.
Is this a workable solution? Answering requests at the backbone site could be
automated with a bit of software. Feel free to comment on this plan. I have
Aztec C and would volunteer to compile and evaluate any Aztec C code.
I seem to recall that this was the way the uucp map was distributed for a
while. Does anybody know how well that worked?
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Terry Morse (408)743-1487
{ amdcad!cae780 } | { sun!sunncal } !leadsv!morseheuring@boulder.UUCP (Vincent Heuring) (11/07/85)
Henry: Nothing personal, but I have followed your postings for some time now, and my observation is that you seem to always take an interesting, but contrary position. And, Henry, you've done it again. The net feed certainly contains lots of chatter and noise, but I would submit that most of it comes from net.singles, net.women, net.philosophy, net.motss, net.auto, net.music, etc. If you and/or your site don't feel that net.sources.mac gives you adequate value/$ then why don't you just drop the group; but please don't argue that the group isn't of value to the rest of us. The issue is really political, as nearly all issues of this kind are, and frankly I hope your unpopular view loses. Vincent P. Heuring Dep't of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Colorado @ Boulder ut-sally!nbires!boulder!heuring