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From: ka@spanky.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Ray"s reply re: bug in SaveWindowExcursion
Message-ID: <366@spanky.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Jun-83 16:55:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: spanky.366
Posted: Sun Jun 12 16:55:18 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jun-83 02:18:09 EDT
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I guess I'd better put in my two cents here.  First, any UNIX site on
the ARPANET can get on USENET if they want to since ARPANET policy
places no limitations on transmitting USENET newsgroups over the
ARPANET.  Secondly, ARPANET policy allows people on the ARPANET to
send mail to people on the UUCP network but not to receive mail from
the UUCP network, so that people on the ARPANET should send requests
for stuff in net.sources to somebody at a USENET site on the ARPANET,
not necessarily the author.

Ther reasons for posting to net.sources are twofold:  it allows sites
with very expensive news links to turn off net.sources, and it makes it
easier to find old programs.  The pieces of code appearing on the emacs
list to date have not been large, so that the former reason at least
does not really apply.  As for setting up a net.sources gateway, that's
really up to the individual ARPANET sites, just as the question of
whether or not to join USENET is.
					Kenneth Almquist