tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) (06/19/88)
In article <4350@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Gene Spafford writes: >Now could we please create the group and move on to arguing over >what the hell to do with the binary groups? Create bin.*, all moderated; let who ever feels like carrying them do so, and whoever feels like ftp archiving them ditto. Subdivide the hierarchy by host type and by {work,play} somehow; it's not clear to me whether folks would find it easier to manage bin.pcdos bin.pcdos.fun bin.xenix386 bin.xenix386.fun . . . or bin.fun.pcdos bin.fun.aint-it . . . Modify the guidelines to stipulate that comp.* is exclusively for readable text postings. You might also want to have a moderated "bin.how-to" group which would carry source for portable uu{en,de}code and other support utilities useful for managing binaries on the net; this group would also accept mail from users having problems posting or grabbing binaries and post digests of these questions and answers for general edification. These digests could in turn be boiled down to a "Frequently Asked Questions" article and posted in monthly rotation like Gene's newusers stuff. On the other hand this may be too much for one person, especially considering the number of different host environments out there, so perhaps unmoderated would be better. I think this would be a successful arrangement if we set it up. Comments? -- Tom Neff UUCP: ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff "None of your toys CIS: 76556,2536 MCI: TNEFF will function..." GEnie: TOMNEFF BIX: are you kidding?