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From: simcha@humming.UUCP (Simcha Lerner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Mr. Moderator, please post XXX
Message-ID: <247@humming.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 88 16:53:05 GMT
References:  <222@pigs.UUCP> <6031@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <236@pigs.UUCP>
Reply-To: simcha@humming.UUCP (Simcha Lerner)
Organization: Kurzweil A.I. Waltham, Mass.
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In article <236@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes:
>In article <6031@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> larryg@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Larry Gilbert) writes:
>>Joe Bob Willie writes,
>>> there are archive sites which already contain these things, please
>>> find a local archive.  there is no need to continiously repost zoo
>>> every month or so.
>>
>>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.
>I run one (rpp386); I use one down the street, killer; and then there is
>uunet, oncoast, osu-cis and others.  These systems are all reachable
>with UUCP.
>(stuff cut)
>For that same $100,000, which you expect the net to spend as a collective
>body, between 30 and 50 THOUSAND users could retrieve that source code
>directly from archival sites.
>
>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 agree that reposting stuff to the whole net is not cost effective,
and that those who are able to connect to an archive site should
pick stuff up directly.

Alas, not all of us are on one-user machines, with full control over
the system, as jfh@rpp386 is.  Some of us are not allowed to add
systems to the L.sys file, and even have to live with a corporate
policy that forbids adding links.  For those of us stuck in this 
situation, it would be nice if someone would volunteer to mail stuff on
an e-mailed request basis.

(Dare I ask the moderator to take on yet another burden?)

Just remember, not all of us have the same facilities and/or flexibility
as you may have.

Simcha Lerner

harvard!humming!simcha
^^^^^^^

All opinions contained herein are put in the public domain,
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