brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) (07/17/88)
In article <2323@rtech.rtech.com> daveb@llama.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes: >I don't see any reason to moderate the unix-pc newsgroups. Fine. All I would like to see is *someone* taking responsibility for archiving and cataloguing UNIXpc software, and making same available for anonymous uucp and/or ftp. There have been a couple of weak attempts at this in the past, but they failed (in my opinion) because access sites were spread all over the net, no site had everything, and lists of software were posted sporadically at best. This can be done with or without a moderated unix-pc.sources; the point is just that it should be done, if someone's willing. >It would be good to create a .bugs group to tidy .general some. I may >just do that in a few days unless there are some strong objections. I think this is a dandy idea. The UNIXpc has enough bugs to support some lively discussion in this area. And this will enable Charlie Brunow to avoid reading all the "bellyaching" he so hates :-) Do it. Just to muddy the waters a bit, I think unix-pc.uucp should either be deleted or renamed. Is there really any reason to separate uucp discussions from general? You MIGHT want to rename it to something like unix-pc.net for meta-discussions such as these, posting unix-pc network maps, info about machine downtime, requests for feeds, etc. (again, real small volume here). I rather suspect that this was the original intent. -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Internet: manta!brant@phlsun.prpnet.com, UUCP: {bpa,drexel}!manta!brant