Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!ucdavis!ccrdave From: ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (0058) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.sources Subject: Re: As long as we are taliking about rmgrouping ... Message-ID: <223@ucdavis.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 22:45:37 EST Article-I.D.: ucdavis.223 Posted: Sun Nov 3 22:45:37 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 06:34:29 EST References: <245@mit-eddie.UUCP> <944@unmvax.UUCP> <292@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 33 Xref: linus net.news.group:3623 net.sources:3471 > > From: stanly@unmvax.UUCP > > > I have a question... If I made a new version of hack 9001 and posted: > > Hay! I have a hack! send me mail if you want one. > > > I get 300 letters saying : "I want hack". I then send out 300 > > copies at ~600K for each one or 180Mg of data. Thats about > > (at 1200 Baud) 16 days worth of phone time for my machine > > alone... > > If you want to provide software, you've either got to make the people > who want the software pay for the service, or supply the service > yourself. Better your machine get tied up sending out mail requests > than everyone else's machine getting tied up rnewsing your sources. > You can encourage them to dial up your machine, give them the uucp > password, and leave the sources in a public area. > How about swapping tapes for large items like hack? If they send you the tape and a return mailer, it isn't much more work for the sender than e-mailing. As I keep all sources on tape anyway, it's the same amount for me. I grant it costs a few buck$ for the postage, but the phone bill may well be more. I tried to send out a chain reel that went from site to site, hopefully accumulating new games as it went. It got into troubles somewhere around the fifth site it went to. I would consider admistering a second chain tape, containing standard collectables. Those interested in reducing the e-mail problem AND providing a games service should mail me, saying what they will do for this project and what sources they will kick into the reel and what sources they want. {dual,lll-crg,ihnp4!ucbvax}!ucdavis!vega!ccrdave