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.