Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!ka 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 Lines: 17 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