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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!canrem!telly!evan
- From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
- Subject: Re: FAS 2.10 async driver, part 5/5
- Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:54:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <2A924491.1F6E@telly.on.ca>
- References: <F5557UC@geminix.in-berlin.de> <102.26574@incc.com> <8f0m=6f@dixie.com>
- Lines: 49
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- In article <8f0m=6f@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur) writes:
-
- >>> # this is fas210.05 (part 5 of fas210)
-
- >>Who is the irresponsible bastard who posts large files in a non source
- >>newsgroup.
-
- >>I have to pay for my news, plus I have to pay for the US-Europe phone
- >>call and I am not impressed having to pay to get this crap.
-
- >>What is the ruling regarding posting large files like this?
-
- >The ruling is you should shut that hole beneath your nose, unplug your
- >modem (or whatever) from your newsfeed, degauss your news partition
- >and get the hell off the net. You obviously don't have the good sense
- >to keep your mouth shut nor to allocate sufficient resources toward
- >running a news site.
-
- I'm sorry, but I can see Jerry's point. There are a lot of newsgroups
- designed for source postings. Sites which want to accept/reject source
- postings can do so by tailoring their newsfeeds to accept/reject source
- groups. Posting FAS to this group thwarts that mechanism.
-
- On the other hand, some sites (including mine) have software that
- automatically scans source groups and archives their contents. Since
- the software doesn't have this group flagged as a sources group, it's
- going to miss the posting of FAS.
-
- So posting sources here offers a double disadvantage. It frustrates
- those who explicitly do not want source postings, as well as those who
- would automatically process (in some manner) *all* source postings.
-
- The issue is not at all one of the utility or value of FAS. Posting a
- message here saying "I've just posted so-and-so to foo.sources, and it's
- available for anon ftp from whatever.site.com", is unquestionably a better
- route to go. It's the route Roe went with SAS. This method of releasing
- source doesn't inconvenience those who want sources, and it doesn't
- inconvenience those who don't.
-
- Was posting the sources here "irresponsible"? Not really.
-
- Was it bad netiquette and sub-optimal? Yes, but no worse than Jerry's
- and John's stooping to personal insults to make their points.
-
- --
- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
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