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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!mouthers!slugg
- From: (slugg jello)
- Subject: Re: Source for USENET archives of comp.sys.next
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.031906.9026@mouthers.nwnexus.wa.com>
- Sender: slugg@mouthers.nwnexus.wa.com
- Reply-To: slugg@mouthers.wa.com
- Organization: Mouthing Flowers
- References: <1ifff2INNilq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:19:06 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1ifff2INNilq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
- writes:
- >
- > In article <1993Jan5.225844.17212@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu
- (Michael McCulloch) writes:
- > >P.S. What about the NeXT community having a fund drive for the Purdue
- > >archives so they can purchase more HD space? I'd contribute...
- >
- >
- > Or maybe we all have to realize that archive sites have finite resources just
- []
- > I think a lot of the archives' problems are caused by users who don't think
- > about what they're doing before submitting. The archive maintainers are
- > volunteers who have many other responsibilities and can't be responsible for
- > filtering out all the abuses that occur.
- > --
- Funny you should post this as I was about to post something to the effect that
- we need to find a solution. Some developers rely to greater or lesser extent
- on the archives as a distribution media. NeXT itself is in this category.
-
- I have been very frustrated for several weeks as I have an app that I would
- like to sell, but cannot because I can't get it onto either sonata or orst. I
- am not abusing anybody. I have a legitimate (and stripped! ;) app which I
- think (hope) many would like to purchase (I'll announce it when it becomes
- possible for someone to obtain it).
-
- Is there another site to which we can move (and posthaste start filling up ;)?
-
- I agree that its about time to truly archive some of that old stuff. There
- must be a precendent for this sort of problem on other far older sites.
-
-
- --
- Doug Kent
- slugg@mouthers.wa.com
-