Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!spaf 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) Distribution: net Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 22 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 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf