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- From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
- Subject: Re: RFD: What to do with comp.binaries.atari.st/comp.sources.atari.st?
- Message-ID: <C0nCK4.DG6@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Summary: There's a case for high bandwidth sources/binaries groups
- Keywords: sources binaries Atari ftp news mail satellite
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1iocthINNnue@spud.Hyperion.COM>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 16:31:15 GMT
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- Steve Grimm asks what's to become of comp.[sources binaries].atari.st. I
- would suggest that it would be appropriate to supplement traffic from direct
- submissions with selections from the ftp archives which are of general
- interest, even if they were not submitted.
-
- First: I will take it as given that a small minority of those interested in
- the sources and binaries can ftp directly. In at least the case of atari.
- archive.umich.edu, but I think others, dialup access to the archive (either
- to a uucp login or a bbs) has been rejected (mostly, I think, for security
- reasons). The assumption is common that mailservers and ftp-by-mail are
- good solutions for the great un-Internetted masses. Here's my other view:
-
- In the Chicago area, mail goes mostly through the heavily-burdened clout
- system. ftp-by-mail is a strain on the capacity of mail channels (which
- are administered more with a view to improving speed and reliability of
- delivery than to accomodating more volume). News travels in several ways
- that are not open to mail (including a direct satellite downlink to chinet).
- The goals are more attuned to guaranteed eventual delivery and accomodating
- volume than with the mail channels. In the Chicago area, a modest switch
- of volume from news to mail would be a move in a good direction.
-
- I presume that the key to this situation: news has more routes available
- than mail has, applies in many cases. So I think it would be a good idea,
- when there are few submissions to the sources/binaries newsgroups, for the
- moderator to select a reasonable volume of items of wide interest from ftp-
- only archives and post them.
- Steve saj@chinet.chi.il.us
-