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From: ain@s.cc.purdue.edu (Patrick White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Announcing the creation of alt.sources.amiga.
Message-ID: <3289@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 88 17:09:13 GMT
References: <2196@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: ain@s.cc.purdue.edu (Patrick White)
Organization: PUCC Land, USA
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[I'd follow-up to alt.admin, but we don't get it.. and I think some of what I
 have to say is of general interest to people who might use this group]

In article <2196@sugar.UUCP> amiga-sources (alt.sources.amiga @ Sugar Land UNIX) writes:
>Q:  Why alt.sources.amiga?  There is already a comp.sources.amiga.
>
>The current moderators of comp.sources.amiga maintain an editorial policy
>that we do not feel best serves the bulk of the Amiga *programmers* on 
>Usenet.  As moderators, this is their right.  As members of the alt
>subnetwork, it is our right to provide this alternative channel.

   Our policy of posting anything provided it does not crash, isn't an
advertisement, and, if it is a demo, might be useful to someone, seems
to me like it serves the *programmers* of the net more so that yours.. but
providing the alt group is indeed your right, and we certainly won't stand
in the way or try to make trouble for you.

>Q:  My site doesn't get alt groups.
>
>There are several ways to get alt groups.  See your site administrator for
>more information.  If your site administrator won't carry alt groups, you
>can get a signon on one of the many public access Unix systems that carry
>the groups such as Portal and Well.  In any case, you can still get the code 
>from Fred Fish disks (all published alt.sources.amiga code will be forwarded 
>to Fred) or from comp.sources.amiga when they become available there.

   In keeping with all the noise you have been making in news.admin about
getting rid of binaries groups to save net.bandwidth, we decided that it
would be a colossel *waste* of bandwidth to have things posted twice.
   Therefore, we won't post anything that has already shown up in this alt
group... and since we can't be sure of what will be posted there, we won't
be archiving it either (basically, we are going to treat this group the
same way we treat sources posted to comp.sys.amiga).

>The mail address for submissions to alt.sources.amiga is:
>	...!uunet!sugar!amiga-sources

   From what I am told, many sites don't recogonize the moderatedness of
alt groups.. so please, if you have submissions, help Peter out and send
them to him directly instead of posting them to the group... it will help
keep confusion down and everything organized.


   [Ya know Peter, based on what you tell us in mail and what you do on the
    net, I really should flame you... but instead I'll just ask that you
    show us a bit of courtesy from time to time.]


-- Pat White   (co-moderator comp.sources/binaries.amiga)
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