Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) (03/21/91)
John and Lee, Werner Uhrig forwarded your comments about an archiving standard to me. It would be best if you cc'd info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu on discussions of this type because I like to keep abreast of things. While a voluntary standard like you propose may be desirable, I am not going to enforce a mandantory set of guidelines. I don't have time to inspect each submission to make sure it lives up to the guideline. I do enforce some things (such as BinHexing), but not anything to do with the actual contents of postings. Also, I would like to suggest that you change the name of your proposed standard. "Sumex Archival Standard for Macintosh" makes the standard sound like it comes from us here at sumex, whereas in fact it is a suggestion you and others are making with no "official" support from sumex or Info-Mac. I do not agree that it is desirable to impose a single compression standard for all the postings at Info-Mac. Would you have us still using PackIt II? I believe change is inevitable and that posters will select whichever program they prefer, thus letting the "market" decide what works best. Bill Lipa info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
derosa@MOT.COM (John DeRosa) (03/21/91)
From: The Moderators <uunet!sumex-aim.stanford.edu!Info-Mac-Request> To: motcid!derosaj, lfk@eastman1.mit.edu Subject: Archiving standard Werner Uhrig forwarded your comments about an archiving standard to me. It would be best if you cc'd info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu on discussions of this type because I like to keep abreast of things. Will do. While a voluntary standard like you propose may be desirable, I am not going to enforce a mandantory set of guidelines. I don't have time to inspect each submission to make sure it lives up to the guideline. I do enforce some things (such as BinHexing), but not anything to do with the actual contents of postings. I can understand that policing of the submissions would be impossible. My intent was to suggest a commonality of submissions that would ultimately save the time of the person who needs to de-archive the documents. Also, I would like to suggest that you change the name of your proposed standard. "Sumex Archival Standard for Macintosh" makes the standard sound like it comes from us here at sumex, whereas in fact it is a suggestion you and others are making with no "official" support from sumex or Info-Mac. The name of my original posting was "PROPOSAL - Archive Standards". It was in comp.sys.mac.apps, misc and programmer. I believe that whoever forwarded my article to you changed the subject line. I do not agree that it is desirable to impose a single compression standard for all the postings at Info-Mac. Would you have us still using PackIt II? I believe change is inevitable and that posters will select whichever program they prefer, thus letting the "market" decide what works best. Good point. Things do change, even though binhex has not...yet. It would appear though that the idea of self-extracting archives will stay with us for the forseeable future. Maybe the combination of binhex on top of a self-extracting archive is the best approach. The SEA can be gererated with Stuffit, Compactor or some other currently unknown application. Bill Lipa info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Thank you for your interest in this topic. - John DeRosa P.S. I have never actually submitted anything to the archives but I am planning to soon. Do I send it to info-mac-request or someplace else? = John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, Cellular Infrastructure Group = = e-mail: ...uunet!motcid!derosaj, motcid!derosaj@uunet.uu.net = = Applelink: N1111 = =I do not hold by employer responsible for any information in this message =