Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!pacbell!att!bakerst!ihtlt!kosman!magnus!mml From: mml@magnus.UUCP (Mike Levin) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: On flames and sources Message-ID: <240@magnus.UUCP> Date: 12 Jul 88 04:42:14 GMT References: <408@icus.UUCP> <4675@killer.UUCP> <412@icus.UUCP> <383@manta.UUCP> <417@icus.UUCP> Reply-To: mml@magnus.UUCP (Mike Levin) Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles Lines: 45 In article <417@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes: > >|>sources group would be useful. If Lenny's willing to do that, great. >|>Lenny: can you handle keeping all the stuff online and available for >|>anonymous uucp? >|> >If I would take the responsibily of being the unix-pc.sources moderator, >I would have a little learning to do. Yes, I would allow anon-uucp >pickups, and keep the sources online. There isn't a *big* volume of >that either, so storage wouldn't be too much of a problem. I haven't >gotten that many replies... most of them are split 1/2 and 1/2 about >making unix-pc.sources moderated. > I feel somewhat responsible for starting this whole ruckus, with an article I posted urging folks to not *cross-post*, and suggesting that a moderated sources group would be a good idea. I would just like to say that there has been a *bit* of software posted which was incomplete, not ported to the 3B1, etc. I say if Lenny is *WILLING* to moderate this group, I'm all for it. I think that's a good way to ensure some continuity. For those folks who wish to post little scripts, etc., we could *also* have an un-moderated group. For example: unix-pc.sources (moderated) Fully supported sources unix-pc.uucp (un-moderated) Uucp related things ONLY. unix-pc.test (un-moderated) For testing new sites, etc. unix-pc.general (un-moderated) Discussions, questions, etc. unix-pc.software (un-moderated) Scripts, bug-reports, programs. unix-pc.hardware (un-moderated) Hardware (drives, tapes, etc.) I think that by thus adding only *2* groups, we get things much better organized. And, once again, I strongly urge *NO CROSSPOSTING* within these groups. Anybody who reads one, reads the others (if they're interested), so it's bothersome and useless. Lenny, you have my vote. Mike Levin -- +---+ P L E A S E R E S P O N D T O: +---+ * * * * * * * * * * | Mike Levin, Silent Radio Los Angeles (magnus)| I never thought I'd be LOOKING | Path {csun|kosman|mtune|srhqla}!magnus!levin | for something to say! ! ! +----------------------------------------------+------------------------------+