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From: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: comp.sources.archives
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Date: 20 Aug 88 05:15:47 GMT
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In article <362@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes:
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>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.