Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!vsi1!lmb From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: v16i090: Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory, Part01/49 Message-ID: <1286@vsi1.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 88 22:17:29 GMT References: <1249@fig.bbn.com> <1280@vsi1.UUCP> <2818@kitty.UUCP> <1527@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Reply-To: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Lines: 23 In article <1527@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> root@cca.ucsf.edu (Computer Center) writes: => In article <1280@vsi1.UUCP>, lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes: => > => > HEY! 3MB of posting for extremely limited interest? = =Hey!!! = =Just because this information is not system programmer oriented =doesn't mean its interest is narrowlly limited. Yea? Well this one _is_. =Applicationms oriented material belongs in comp.sources just as =much as systems administration material. If Rich posted 3MB of anything that was not of broad interest, I'd say it was a waste of resources (we're talking $100Ks here!). My point is that the interest range is small enough that alternative methods of distribution should have been used. Even the GNU software, which is of vastly larger interest, isn't posted to the net like this. -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov