gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) (11/18/85)
[I think the best thing to do for now is to table the discussion. The various flaps in net.news.group currently make it unreadable, and no new groups can be created without discussion there. When it dies down, *then* back to business as usual.] Until then, I suggest that Amiga sources be posted to net.sources. No binaries should be posted as this could incite rioting. One or two people have posted messages saying "Please post both source and binary because I'm too cheap to buy a compiler". I don't think we should spend our net bandwidth on them. You can buy a whole developers kit for $450. If you can't afford $450 of software for your $2500 machine, why didn't you buy a $1500 machine and enough s/w to be useful? Also, net.sources *is* forwarded to the Arpanet. Here's an excerpt from the latest Arpanet mailing-lists list: UNIX-SOURCES@BRL ARPANET/MilNet gateway for distribution of the "UUCP net" Unix net.sources newslist. Only ONE person at a site should subscribe, since articles tend to be rather long. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to UNIX-SOURCES-REQUEST@BRL. Coordinator: Mike Muuss <mike@BRL>
jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa (11/20/85)
From: jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa I too am in favor of tabling the discussion, but I must repeat that if you put Amiga sources in net.sources, you will lose most of the Internet people. I imagine most Usenetters read net.sources anyway, but I am certainly not willing to wade through megabytes of completely uninteresting Unix sources to get at the Amiga sources. Until something better comes along, I intend to send any sources I create to info-amiga, i.e. net.micro.amiga. I urge others to do likewise. --- Jef