HOLSTEGE@CIT-20@sri-unix (08/02/82)
Date: 1 Jul 1982 1010-PDT I have been told that, to get to net.sources over the arpanet, you find a machine on the arpanet which gets netnews, ftp to it, and look in /usr/spool/news/net.sources. Two questions. How does one enroll in netnews, and more immediately, where is a machine that satisfies the above two requirements. Thanks. - Eric Holstege -------
Wegeng.WBST@PARC-MAXC@sri-unix (08/11/82)
Date: 26 Jul 1982 10:13 EDT "How can I get stuff from net.sources?" A good question... I've been wondering about the same thing! The following suggestions have been made by various people. 1) get some other Usenet site to allow you to connect to Usenet through them (using uucp... you'll probably have to pay for the phone call). (this assumes you are running Unix) 2) get some other Arpanet site to forward the stuff to you via the Arpanet. As far as I know, there is currently no redistribution of net.sources on the Arpanet. Know of anyone who would like to volunteer? Don
mark (08/11/82)
Any site on USENET can get net.sources (although some don't want it because they can't afford the phone calls) and any site on the ARPANET is welcome to join USENET. (If you aren't running UNIX, you'll have to write some software, since all the existing code is written in C. But you could whip something together that didn't worry about running off a configuration table and was intended for a leaf node pretty easily, if you rely on your mail system for the user interface.) However, I doubt any ARPA USENET site will volunteer to redistribute net.sources via plain mail because if the fan-out is more than 1 or 2 the load would kill their system. But if some site is willing, the information in there is certainly public. Mark
smk@Mitre-Bedford@sri-unix (09/11/82)
Date: Thu Sep 9 14:19:14 1982 I think it's great that everyone posts their mods/additions on net.sources. You know what would be even better (at least for me)? If someone would tell me how I can retrieve all that great code. I remember someone else asking the same question before, only there was never an answer over wizards. Is net.sources a select privilege, or can a low-life like me also get on it? Moral -- Supurb code that is inaccessible to others is no code at all. Later, -- steve kramer
MEDINETS@RU-GREEN.ARPA (06/10/83)
Hi there. I am very nex to Unix and I saw a mention of net.sources
and became interested. The machine that I am working on has absoulutely
no source code thereby making it hard for me to either learn or modify
things. Can anybody give me some info on this tidbit?
David Medinets, the boy *wondering*, so-to-be the man *pondering*
aspiring Unix-wizard
-------BMD%mit-oz@sri-unix.UUCP (09/29/83)
Some months ago you askd about net.sources. I, too, am wondering how to get to this magic file. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me what you've found out! -- Ben Dawson