andy@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Andrew Purshottam) (11/14/88)
Hi, first my greatest praise for what you are doing. I have been collecting info on snarfable codes for several years and have big pile of mail messages and notes indicating archive sites. Many of them I have verified and in some cases, regularly use. I assume most of the big archives (like uunet) that have newgroups associated with them will send you their own site entries. However, many of the smaller arch sites, particularly those part of a univ research group will never get around to making a proper ca posting. Would you care for either (1) raw postings of original mail messages announcing a snarfable source; (2) ca-format entries for such? (2) stuff would come at a *much* slower rate, of course. If you can make contributing to the data base (and making research result software snarfable) a standard part of the academic publishing process for cs research work, you will have done much towards cutting out the bullsh*t out of usa cs research. Andy
comparc@twwells.uucp (comp.archives) (11/15/88)
In article <8811140743.AA28543@ernie.Berkeley.EDU> andy@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Andrew Purshottam) writes:
: I have been collecting info on snarfable codes for several years
: and have big pile of mail messages and notes indicating archive sites.
Drool, drool. Pant, pant. :-)
: However, many of the smaller arch sites, particularly those
: part of a univ research group will never get around to making
: a proper ca posting. Would you care for either (1) raw postings
: of original mail messages announcing a snarfable source; (2)
: ca-format entries for such? (2) stuff would come at a *much*
: slower rate, of course.
Yes, I'd definitely like to have them. And I'd vastly prefer them
preformatted. You see, there is no real way that I will be able to
make a practice of formatting them myself, simply because there are
*so* many archive sites, and I have *so* little spare time. Feel free
to send tham *slowly*, that means that I can take my time to check
them over before posting them. The one thing I really have to watch
out for is getting flooded out.
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Bill
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