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From: andrew@stc.UUCP (Andrew Macpherson)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Net.sources.d and mods to software.
Message-ID: <532@stc-b.stc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 07:19:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 07:19:23 1985
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References: <366@timeinc.UUCP> <295@luke.UUCP>
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In article <295@luke.UUCP> itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List) writes:
>      Before any action is taken  on  this  prayer,  could  we  have  some
>      discussion  of net.sources vs. mod.sources?  
>
>      Isn't it  time  for  the  demise  of  net.sources  rather  than  its
>      expansion?
>
I'm afraid there is a rather crass reason for keeping net.sources, at
least on this side of the atlantic.  >> M O N E Y <<.  You see if I
mail my latest snafu-merge prog off for inclusion in mod.sources I have
to pay ( or at least STC in my case ) for the costs of the
inter-continental mail.

On the other hand net.sources is "free" if I'm going to share my
'masterwork', in as much as the costs of trans-atlantic transfers are
shared out betwixt all potential beneficiaries in europe.

Please don't get me wrong, I support whole-heartedly the principle of
mod.sources, and were the economics of the situation any different would
encourage all to use this exellent distribution service.  I do commend
it to everyone on the US/Canadian portion of the net, but cannot
recomend paying more than one's own phone bill for sending off the
might-be-useful.
-- 
Regards,
	Andrew Macpherson.	
	{creed, datlog, idec, iclbra, iclkid, root44, stl, ukc}!stc!andrew