Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site flame.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!ukc!qtlon!flame!kay From: kay@flame.UUCP (Kay Dekker) Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: Post ALL "sources wanted" requests to THIS newsgroup, Message-ID: <282@flame.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 17:22:43 EST Article-I.D.: flame.282 Posted: Fri Dec 7 17:22:43 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 02:55:24 EST Organization: VLSI Group, Warwick University, UK Lines: 28An immediate apology for posting here: by my own argument I condemn myself, but ... This is out-of-hand already. I propose a restructuring of source-related news, viz. 1) net.sources Source, and source ONLY (on pain of incineration) posted here 2) net.wanted.sources Requests (or offers) of software posted here 3) net.sources.d This is where discussions of software, claims of bugs found, discussion of source-stuff, and POSSIBLY short bug-fixes. (Long fixes (ie big diff scripts) should be posted to net.sources with a notification in parallel here. This seems to me a way of keeping the (very useful) sources newsgroup from choking on non-germane items. Ideas, anyone? Kay. PS: if you don't hear from me for a while, have yourselves a ++merry festive season. -- "But you TOLD me to type 'rm * .o', and I DID, and it said 'rm: .o nonexistent', and ... ... mcvax!ukc!flame!ubu!kay