Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU!RWS From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: expo.lcs.mit.edu Message-ID: <19880531161457.6.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 31 May 88 16:14:00 GMT References: <401.8805270947@latlog.co.uk> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 Date: Fri, 27 May 88 10:47:19 -0100 From: mcvax!latlog!PAYNE@uunet.uu.net Is there any reason why packages which get added to expo do not also get added to the xstuff server? Yes. It isn't part of our job description, and our time, energy, disk space, and CPU cycles are better directed to other tasks. Stuff placed in contrib/ is not placed there by us, and we feel no obligation to actively redistribute it, except in the course of our normal releases. Also, we get enough hate mail as it is from postmasters about use of mail for bulk data transfer. It is very frustrating for people who can't ftp expo to know that all these things exist but have no access to them. Sorry. (It is also frustrating for people who try to provide a service to get requests to do even more :-)