gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (02/16/86)
I have been archiving net.sources for about 4 years now, ever since Sun came up on the Usenet. I've been archiving mod.sources since *it* arrived, too. It takes about half an Eagle and requires constant pruning. It's true that there is a lot of trash in net.sources. I wish that trash would go away. I'm not sure of the best way to send it away but I *am* sure that throwing away net.sources in favor of mod.sources is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I've never tried to post to mod.sources so I don't know if it will work. I *did* just try to post to mod.std.unix (while running a tail -f on the news log, the sendmail log, and the uucp log in another window) and it definitely did *not* get sent anywhere. I've looked at my moderators file and it looks OK. I'm running 2.10.3 news (4.3bsd-beta) and using vnews, not rn or Pnews. I believe my head is screwed on straight, but it really is not working. Mod groups are a good idea for some things. Mod.sources is even one of those things. BUT MOD GROUPS DON'T WORK YET! When I have working PD software to post (and it's coming along...) I will certainly try to post it to mod.sources. BUT...if that fails, I will post it to net.sources. If you don't want my software, go ahead, make my day, delete net.sources. I'd rather clean out 10 trash messages and get one PD source than miss the sources that the author couldn't figure out how to post. -- John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman) (02/19/86)
In article <531@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >Mod groups are a good idea for some things. Mod.sources is even one >of those things. BUT MOD GROUPS DON'T WORK YET! You have a problem with vnews on your host, so you conclude the above. Seems like quite a leap to me. You mentioned mod.std.unix: I'm the moderator, and I get submissions all the time which were obviously posted by the user and mailed by the news software, not mailed manually. -- John Quarterman, UUCP: {gatech,harvard,ihnp4,pyramid,seismo}!ut-sally!im4u!jsq ARPA Internet and CSNET: jsq@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU, jsq@sally.UTEXAS.EDU