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From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: the answer to the net.sources garbage
Message-ID: <1165@houxm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 17:09:03 EST
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Another way for net.sources/mod.sources to work is to just make it a request news-
group.  People can post stating "mysource version x.y.z is available".  They may
proceed on giving out information on how to access the source, for example, giving
out their anonymous ARPA password and indicating the locations of the files, or
giving out the uucp password and telling what files to access, or just supplying a
reply address where people can request that copies of the sources be distributed by
mail.  This could be even better than net.sources/mod.sources as it currently is,
because the source requestors can specify tar/cpio format, sources vs. binaries,
whether they need all or parts of it, etc.  This could even apply to the postings of
the news and uucp maps.

Just a thought.
-- 
			... hey, we've gotta get out of this place,
    			    there's got to be something better than this ...

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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