Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!netsys!len From: len@netsys.UUCP (Len Rose) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Unbiased moderator volunteers Summary: leavem sources Keywords: no,not the source,luke. Message-ID: <8659@netsys.UUCP> Date: 24 Jun 88 05:03:03 GMT References: <2805@rpp386.UUCP> <28.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP> <4542@gryphon.CTS.COM> <659@scovert.sco.COM> <379@teletron.UUCP> Reply-To: len@netsys.UUCP (Len Rose) Organization: NetSys,Germantown Md. Lines: 20 In article <379@teletron.UUCP> andrew@teletron.UUCP (Andrew Scott) writes: [lots of intelligent remarks,which make sense] >I'm also in the "binaries must go" camp. I think that *all* sources and >binaries newsgroups (including comp.sources.unix) should be replaced by >a comp.sources.announce type newsgroup, where announcements of new source >releases could be made, including instructions on how to get them from an >archive server. (perhaps uunet?) This is what I have a problem with.. Surely not the SOURCE groups.. Source is what makes Usenet so worthwhile for most sites. Surely with the reduced traffic,source would not be a problem.. -- Len Rose - NetSys,Inc. 301-520-5677 len@ames.arc.nasa.gov or {ames,decuac,ihnp4}!netsys!len