info-vax@ucbvax.UUCP (02/12/86)
Distribution first: o I have not forgotten any of you who have requested. I am just trying to catch up. o I cannot distribute bulletin thru USENET. It is of no interest to UN*X people, and usenet is 99% UN*X. If it was a small piece of software, that would be fine, but it is not. o Many people requested that I send bulletin thru e-mail. That can be done, but under exceptional circumstances, such as australia. If you have ARPA access, than one site already made the sources available thru anonymous ftp. That would be easier to get at. o I do not seem to be able to get it across a gataway to send to DEC. The requester from DEC should try ARPA also. o Tape distribution is time consuming, but can be handled. If you have ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER WAY of getting it, send me a tape at: Ozan S. Yigit Dept. of Computer Science York University 4700 Keele St. North York Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 I would (rather, the department would) appreciate if the requester includes some suitable amount to cover surface postage costs. Now for the current/future plans on BULLETIN: o We are busy including a change so that you can configure the bulletin where the default display will be in cronological order, instead of reverse-cronological order. For a continuous stream of bulletins, that mode is more useful than the reverse mode. We find reverse-cronological display most useful for discontinuous, non-discussion type bulletin posting. o We are considering an implementation (again configurable) of bulletin where bulletin libraries are subdirectories instead of text libraries. This would be most useful on a site with a very high volume of bulletins (probably due to cross-posting from arpa, or usenet..) Any suggestions on this issue is welcome. o We are looking for a more efficient way of storing the user-related bulletin information (1-n read, 3-6 never-read etc..). Again, any suggestions would be most useful. o Bulletin sources are being revised cosmetically so that you can read it in an ordinary terminal :-). (I.e. you would not need 132-column display mode) I have been building a mailing list for those who received the bulletin thru me, using BITNET. When the next release comes about, it will be sent to those in the list. Oz ------- Usenet: [decvax|allegra|linus|ihnp4]!utzoo!yetti!oz Bitnet: oz@[yusol|yuyetti] FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION vs. EMPIRE. Watch for things to come..