david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) (02/12/85)
Unless someone can give me a good reason not to......By....
[^Z...cal 2 1985...fg]
February, Wednesday 20, 1985.
From then, please discuss sources in net.sources.d!!!!!
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No stupid sayings (I can't think of one).
No stupid disclaimers (Nobody else would claim my statements anyway).spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) (02/15/85)
The idea for a net.sources.d has been discussed before, and turned down.
We have a net.sources.bugs for discussion of problems with posted
sources, and a net.wanted.source for people wanting repostings. What
other kind of discussion can you think of which would generate enough
traffic to warrant its own newsgroup?
Furthermore, the general feeling has been that no group should be created
as a subgroup of net.sources unless it contains information that should
be archived forever at sites that archive net.sources. Therefore,
net.sources.d is probably not a good name.
For what do you think such a group is needed?
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uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spafhokey@plus5.UUCP (Hokey) (02/15/85)
My immediate response was to mail back a message saying "please don't,
because I don't want to archive the stuff". I then realized I could
probably come up with a mechanism to avoid archiving net.sources.d by
using the ! notation.
Assuming it is easy to avoid archiving net.sources.d, how about renaming
net.wanted.sources to net.sources.wanted?
I removed net.sources from the Newsgroup: line because I hate seeing all
the discussion that goes on in net.sources.
I think net.sources.{d,wanted} would be swell.
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314-725-9492thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) (02/17/85)
There already is a group for discussing user-contributed software --
it's called "net.usoft", and gets virtually NO traffic right now. Seems
to me it would be easy to put "Followup-to: net.usoft" on all sources
postings, thus keeping discussions of the features of various posted
software off net.sources.
=Spencer
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