amiga-sources (alt.sources.amiga @ Sugar Land UNIX) (06/28/88)
Q: What is alt.sources.amiga? alt.sources.amiga is a moderated newsgroup containing source code of interest to Amiga programmers. Submissions may be virtually any type of program, in any language (for example, C, Modula-2, Forth, Draco, FORTRAN, BASIC, Rexx, assembler, Icon, Sculpt and so on). Q: What can I post to alt.sources.amiga? You can post source code to any non-trivial program that you or someone you know has written that you think could be of use to others in the Amiga community. The code must be freely redistributable, and we would prefer that you impose a minimum of restrictions on commercial reuse. We have no problem with requests for money or credit, but outright shareware will not be accepted. The code should do or demonstrate something useful, but again this is not a hard requirement: particularly amusing (and small) screen hacks and the like will be published. Q: Why alt.sources.amiga? There is already a comp.sources.amiga. The current moderators of comp.sources.amiga maintain an editorial policy that we do not feel best serves the bulk of the Amiga *programmers* on Usenet. As moderators, this is their right. As members of the alt subnetwork, it is our right to provide this alternative channel. Q: Why not alt.sources? Because alt.sources is not moderated and it's not specifically for Amiga sources. Q: Why is alt.sources.amiga moderated? We feel that by moderating the group we can maintain a high "signal-to-noise ratio" by posting submissions that meet the guidelines and by, to some degree, testing submitted code. Our goal is to keep the advantages of a moderated newsgroup while still providing quick turnaround of submissions. Q: My site doesn't get alt groups. There are several ways to get alt groups. See your site administrator for more information. If your site administrator won't carry alt groups, you can get a signon on one of the many public access Unix systems that carry the groups such as Portal and Well. In any case, you can still get the code from Fred Fish disks (all published alt.sources.amiga code will be forwarded to Fred) or from comp.sources.amiga when they become available there. Q: Why you? We feel it is necessary. We feel we have the resources to do it right. Call for sources: We're now ready to accept sources for publication in alt.source.amiga that meet the above guidelines. To allow for the newgroup message to propagate, source distribution will begin on July 9th. The mail address for submissions to alt.sources.amiga is: ...!uunet!sugar!amiga-sources Thank you. Peter da Silva, Karl Lehenbauer.