Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MULTI+2.11; site stc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!andrew 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 Article-I.D.: stc-b.532 Posted: Tue Aug 6 07:19:23 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 22:29:28 EDT References: <366@timeinc.UUCP> <295@luke.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@stc.UUCP (Andrew Macpherson) Organization: STC Telecoms, London N11 1HB. Lines: 27 Xpath: stc stc-b stc-a 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