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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Regarding alt.sources.amiga.
Keywords: comp.sources.amiga.tech
Message-ID: <2220@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 88 16:49:16 GMT
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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The messages posted by the comp.sources.amiga moderators indicate that we
didn't make our points as clear as we thought we had in our announcement of
the creation of alt.sources.amiga. Consequently, I'd like to clear up a few 
things.

First, let me introduce Karl Lehenbauer. He's posted a few messages and
programs now and then :->. Say hi, Karl.
	"Hi"
...and I'm Peter da Silva. I think most of you have "met" me before.

OK.  First of all, we are not trying to replace comp.sources.amiga. We're
not trying to denigrate the efforts of the comp.sources/binaries.amiga
moderators. We created alt.sources.amiga because we believe that it will
be a useful new resource to Amiga programmers on the net. We do understand
that the majority of the Amiga users on the net are not programmers, and we
have no complaints with the decision of the current moderators to continue
maintaining the group in the current manner.

Developers, however, have other needs.  They are our intended "market."
We aren't competition with comp.sources.amiga... we're a complementary
service.  Think of us as "comp.sources.amiga.tech".

The people who would otherwise be posting short (and not-so-short)
programs to comp.SYS.amiga can now send them to us instead. The people
upset about how long it takes them to get the latest whizzbang program
that someone announced on comp.sys.amiga can look here. And the people
content to wait for the binaries don't even have to be aware we exist.

Rather than increasing the waste of net bandwidth, this should decrease
it, by moving techie sources into a more appropriate forum.

If the comp.*.amiga moderators follow through with their threat and refuse
to accept anything posted to alt.sources.amiga for inclusion in
comp.sources.amiga, well, that will certainly hurt the chances of
alt.sources.amiga's succeeding as an alternate source for code. We are not
so narrow-minded as to claim that this is their primary aim. We suspect
they're upset at what they believe is a personal attack.

It's not. We've considered this move and rejected it several times in the
past months. We felt there was a need for a firmer editorial policy in these
groups. We've decided that we were wrong... that the current policy does
better fit most readers of the Amiga groups. Rather than being an attack,
this should be seen as an affirmation of their efforts.
-- 
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