page%swap@Sun.COM (Bob Page) (05/18/89)
thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) wrote:
>Such postings are the "raison d'etre" of Usenet: education and communication.
Agreed, and the turnaround time is better than submitting it to the
moderator for posting to the sources group (turnaround time is
currently 7-10 days).
However, USENET discussions are fleeting things; no more than two
weeks after you post your small code somebody will post a message
looking for something that does just what it did. When you send to
the moderator, copies are archived "forever" in many different
archives spanning this great world of ours, and people can be
instructed to search there.
So, for lasting memories, use Kodak film and the moderated groups.
For large code postings, you don't even want to think about posting to
the discussion group unless you like hate mail.
Oh, for those of you who use the kilowatt archive server - make sure
you add a "path" line to your mail message, and make sure the address
is relative to a known "domain" site (such as uunet.uu.net). Saying
"path host!user" or "path user@host.uucp" isn't good enough. Poor Raz
is going nutty dealing with the bazillions of bounced messages he's
getting.
..bob