Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlvd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!warwick!rlvd!drg From: drg@rlvd.UUCP (Duncan Gibson) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: net.sources.* Message-ID: <910@rlvd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 06:08:48 EST Article-I.D.: rlvd.910 Posted: Tue Nov 5 06:08:48 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:43:33 EST Reply-To: drg@rlvd.UUCP (Duncan Gibson) Organization: Software Engineering Group, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Lines: 13 Xpath: warwick ubu I am not a Mac user, what follows is a tentative suggestion:- Why can't sources be posted as just that, *sources* and not in binhex form? If the sources were posted, I might be sufficiently interested to try to port some useful program to the machine I am working on, rather than the Mac, Amiga or whatever. It seems to me that this would be more in the spirit of the net, ie to share useful resources/knowledge. [I assume that anything posted to the net is public domain, or for public use with copyright attached] -- UUCP: ..!ukc!rlvd![rlvc!]drg ARPA: drg%rl.vc@ucl.cs JANET: drg@rl.vc