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From: woodsb@killer.UUCP (Brent L. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Announcing the creation of alt.sources.amiga.
Message-ID: <4623@killer.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 88 04:12:22 GMT
References: <2196@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: woodsb@killer.UUCP (Brent L. Woods)
Organization: Artificial Realities, Inc.
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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.

     Oh, really?  This comes as news to me.  What editorial policy are
you referring to, Mr. da Silva?  How do you feel that said "policy"
does not (if I may paraphrase you) "best serve the bulk of the Amiga
*programmers* on Usenet?"

     Also, you use the first person plural pronoun.  To whom does this
refer?

 >We feel that by moderating the group we can maintain a high "signal-to-noise
 >ratio" by posting submissions that meet the guidelines and by, to some degree,
 >testing submitted code.  Our goal is to keep the advantages of a moderated
 >newsgroup while still providing quick turnaround of submissions.

     This is what we (Pat, Rob, and I) try to do.  If you wish to do
testing *and* try to achieve a quick turnaround, I wish you luck.
Personal experience has proven to me that that would *literally* be a
full time job.

 >Q:  My site doesn't get alt groups.
 >
 [...]
 >to Fred) or from comp.sources.amiga when they become available there.

     Unfortunately, any source posted to alt.sources.amiga will *not*
become available through comp.sources.amiga.  We (the moderators) feel
that posting the same thing to both groups would be a needless
duplication of effort, as well as being a waste of net bandwidth (an
issue currently being debated hotly in news.admin).  Also, since the
above mentioned source will neither be tested nor posted by the
comp.sources.amiga moderators, we will not archive it in either of our
archives (the current one at Purdue, and the soon-to-be-established
public UUCP archive at killer.UUCP).


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     Brent Woods, Co-Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.amiga

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