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- From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: Is there interest in comp.sources.postscript?
- Message-ID: <6739@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:50:17 GMT
- References: <4365@vidiot.UUCP> <1992Nov6.162433.4244@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> <1992Nov7.141220.4309@kosman.uucp>
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- Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
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- In article <1992Nov7.141220.4309@kosman.uucp> kevin@kosman.uucp (Kevin
- O'Gorman) writes:
-
- > [...] Would people want a PS source group for PS ideas, or for
- >pretty pictures?
-
- Both, but more for ideas.
-
- >Is there enough interest to get the few hundred votes it
- >takes for a new group to come even close?
-
- Time will tell - probably
-
- >If so, I think it would be good precisely because PS source is in some ways
- >enherently different from other sources. It tends to have a kernel of
- >generally-useful ideas and a huge amount of what's really data. This may
- >annoy folks in other sources groups. We're sort of used to it.
-
- Well yes. But posting code fragments, routines, that sort of thing
- should I think be encouraged.
-
- It would be particularly useful - and form a valuable learning
- resource - if the sources group was archived somewhere, and even
- indexed. Any offers for a site? or is that premature...
-
- >Anybody who reads this, if you want to make it happen, we need to know you're
- >interested.
-
- OK, I did.
-
- --
- Chris Lilley
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