paf@unixprt.UUCP (Paul Fronberg) (02/21/89)
I have not seen anything from comp.sources.misc for quite a while. Does it still exist???
allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (02/28/89)
As quoted from <379@unixprt.UUCP> by paf@unixprt.UUCP (Paul Fronberg): +--------------- | I have not seen anything from comp.sources.misc for quite a while. Does it | still exist??? +--------------- What happened was a massive upheaval. First, the move to uunet itself caused a time delay as postings were forwarded from ncoast (even if they were sent to the correct address, as the net-wide aliases could not be changed overnight). Then there was a foulup in the aliases, which caused at least two postings to be bounced. And now I have had to completely reorganize myself, since I now have an archive to maintain. (The bad and good news all in one sentence.) The changes are as yet untested; I hope to complete testing and debugging (of course ;-) within the next day or two, after which there are some 20-30 postings in the chute. The good news, as I mentioned above, is that I now have an official archive (and UUNET is now an official archive site -- don't you just *love* consistency? ;-) Anyway, it's all coming around. The next batch of changes will happen around the next volume, and will include switching to rsalz's "cshar" (except for single originally-unshar'ed files, which will continue to be wrapped by the world's first shar filter, "dummyshar") and the resumption of "stash"ing to fix the current reply-address botches. At risk of getting flamed to death, I will also be explicitly invoking compilation copyright. I wouldn't trust certain fee-based services as far as I could throw their PDP-10's. The license will probably be based on the "rn" license; just to summarize, it will forbid redistribution for a fee (I do tend to get upset about that) and very little else. I assume that if the author of a program wanted someone to make money off of it, they'd have found a distributor for it instead.... ++Brandon (P.S. The first posting to go out after the end of this little hiatus will be the list of then pending submissions, so people will know what got to me and what didn't. If your submission isn't in the list, resubmit it.) (P.P.S. This is the last time I move a newsgroup. If there should be a next time, I think I'll resign instead. I'm pooped! ;-) -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@<backbone> NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser