imacbeath@crocus.waterloo.edu (Ian MacBeath, CGC) (12/15/88)
In article <1280@vsi1.UUCP>, lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes: > HEY! 3MB of posting for extremely limited interest? I strongly urge you, It's 1.46 Mbytes, not 3 Mbytes. In article <346@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes: >I agree. This is a strong argument for maintaining at archive sites this >kind of distribution, and publishing a notice in comp.sources... that it >is available and where to get it from. I disagree that it is of `limited' interest. It is as interesting as anything else that I see posted there. Extending your statement, we might as well just post the names of the archive sites of all sources and not have any source postings at all. The only problem is that not everyone has access to these archive sites so you'll see large multi-part pieces of e-mail be transmitted all over the place anyway. I would not like to see that happen. I believe that the manner in which postings are being done now is fine. And furthermore, there was some deliberation about the SAO posting before it was actually posted (read Alan's article).