From: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Re: Request for sitrep on net.sources
Article-I.D.: watmath.4349
Posted: Mon Jan 17 12:40:03 1983
Received: Tue Jan 18 00:14:36 1983
References: sdcsla.242

Net.sources is well known for containing huge articles.   One can often
see a several-thousand line file showing up there.   Sites that pay don't
want to get such files without an explicit request.   That is why they
have turned off net.sources.   These sites are still interested in programs,
probably, so a short announcement makes some sense.   Thus they can ask
for programs they want explicitly.

Right now, there is no policy of how to announce, although most people use
a combination of unix-wizards, misc and general to do so.  Perhaps we do
need a group (which every net.all site would get) called net.sources.announce
for intros on each net.sources program.   This group might even be fed
one way to unix-wizards as a lot of those people are interested.

Posting to net.misc was something that a lot of us advised against.
After all, when a site has deliberately shut off a group, posting something
to another just to get around that is very counterproductive.