Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!emv From: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Call for discussion: comp.sources.archives Message-ID: <646@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> Date: 20 Aug 88 05:15:47 GMT References:<222@pigs.UUCP> <6031@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <236@pigs.UUCP> <478@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR <362@pigs.UUCP> <389@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> Sender: usenet@mailrus.cc.umich.edu Reply-To: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor Lines: 17 In article <362@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes: > >how about creating a newsgroup for the sole purpose of posting archive >information to? i am suggesting we create a new group, comp.sources.archives amen hallelujah, we need this group. use it for mail-based servers as well as anonymous FTP sites, anonymous UUCP sites, people who will mail you floppies, anything like that. who's going to collect the votes, or do we petition to have the backbone create it "by acclamation" ? --Ed ps. there's an archive server at mcf, path to it is mailrus!umix!mcf!archives serving Michigan.