gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (02/16/86)
It seems to be impossible to kill the chitchat in net.sources. Bruce
Wampler's right though, there *does* need to be some place to discuss
PD versus copyright versus...since it's clear that lots of folks don't
understand the differences. And a lot of people (like me) who care
about sources really don't care about the other stuff in net.legal.
I'm undecided whether we should create a new group for the discussions
or a new group for the sources. One thing I'd like to see is that news
software insert a "Followup-To: <discussion group>" in every article
that appears in the sources group. (This should happen at each relay
site too, if the article does not have a Followup-To: line.) Even if
the originating site is running ancient netnews, as soon as the source
hits a site running new software, we'll be protected from nerds hitting
the "f" key.
And, of course, the net.announce.newuser stuff should be updated.
By the way, I think the idea of cross-posting the indexes and such
across mod.sources and net.sources is ridiculous. Ditto the idea of
sending a little message to net.sources whenever you post to
mod.sources. If you unsubscribed from mod.sources, it's your problem.
If your sysadmin kept net.sources and tossed mod.sources, find another
job -- do you really want to work with those idiots anyway?
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