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From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.wanted.sources???
Message-ID: <11355@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 13:44:57 EST
Article-I.D.: gatech.11355
Posted: Sun Dec 16 13:44:57 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Dec-84 04:22:19 EST
References: <735@sjuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
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Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
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Summary: net.wanted.sources is correct

In article <735@sjuvax.UUCP> bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee) writes:
>I'm sure I missed the boat on this one.  I'm really backlogged as far
>as my news reading is concerned, and I probably missed the discussion
>on the creation of this group (unless it was one of the unilaterally
>created ones).  HOWEVER!! Shouldn't this group have been named
>net.sources.wanted??

Nope, it is correct as "net.wanted.sources".  We created this group
about 3 months ago to get all of the "I need the source for foo"
articles out of net.sources.  We didn't name it "net.sources.wanted"
because that would mean that all of those requests would get archived
along with "net.sources" at the sites which archive that newsgroup --
thus defeating one of the primary goals of creating the newsgroup.

There was discussion on this topic when the group was created, but
since nearly everybody agreed with the decision, it didn't last long
(the discussion, that is).
-- 
Gene "8 months and counting" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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