Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cyb-eng.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!cyb-eng!bc From: bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Net.software.projects group idea Message-ID: <661@cyb-eng.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:01:59 EDT Article-I.D.: cyb-eng.661 Posted: Tue Aug 13 11:01:59 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 00:30:54 EDT References: <134@isis.UUCP> Organization: Cyb Systems, Austin, TX Lines: 19 I think it is a great idea, although I have reservations about the "for pay" idea. I've coordinated projects before involving independent software contractors, and it seems to me that it is hard enough in one city, person-to- person, to ensure that everyone feels that fairness is being maintained. > Granted, the net.software.projects sort of idea doesn't apply only to > software projects, but equally well to hardware, mathematics, fiction > writing, or anthropological studies, ... ad infinitum. If it turns out > that there's a desire for more groups (net.math.projects...) so be it > and long live the net. Why isn't it net.projects.software, net.projects.hardware, etc? Seems to me to make a LOT more sense. -- / \ Bill Crews ( bc ) Cyb Systems, Inc \__/ Austin, Texas [ gatech | ihnp4 | nbires | seismo | ucb-vax ] ! ut-sally ! cyb-eng ! bc