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From: mhm@cbnews.ATT.COM (Michael H. Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Mr. Moderator, please post XXX
Message-ID: <863@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Aug 88 12:41:49 GMT
References:  <222@pigs.UUCP> <6031@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <236@pigs.UUCP>
Reply-To: mhm@cbnews.ATT.COM (Michael H. Moran)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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[many citations of previous articles all arguing about access to source]

>>I agree.  But there are those of us who can't ftp archives.
>>
>>Does anyone have an idea for a compromise?  Maybe post stuff like that every
>>THREE months?
>
>There exists a large number of publically accessible archive systems
....reachable with UUCP.
[Calculations of approximate cost of moving source, determined from
all th administative trivia posted monthly]

>For one of you to retrieve the source from a public access system,
>the cost is $3.07, using the same numbers.  
>
>I'm sorry, but if you aren't willing to spend three bucks to pick up
>ARC or ZOO, why should Rahul bother posting it every three or four
>months?  Why should anyone do anything if YOU aren't willing to spend
>three stinking dollars?
>-- 
> jfh@rpp386.uucp	(The Beach Bum at The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers)

I, personally, would welcome the ability to FTP, uucp or even drive to a
local archive site to get copies of source I want, but I have three problems.
First, I don't have a personal machine.  Second, for security reasons, none
of the machines I deal with at here at work allow FTP to any machine not
on one of the inhouse LANs.  And third, modems are not allowed to hang off
of the same set of machines.

Thus, the only way to get source is to catch it as it appears in              
comp.sources.* or to have it mailed to me.  In essence, I don't have the
option of spending "three stinking dollars".

Mike Moran
Contracted to AT&T-BL		UUCP:	att!cbosgd!mhm
Columbus, Ohio				mhm@cbosgd.att.com