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[Edward Vielmetti]

christopher lishka complains (quite rightly) that posting a large
piece of source code to the net and satisfying everyone is hard.
(even if the code works perfectly).  shar formats, archive header
information, etc are all problematic.

alt.sources is entirely samizdat, you get no help from nobody.  If
you have something you want to share and it's finished and it can
wait a few days, send it to comp.sources.misc (if it's smallish)
or comp.sources.unix (if it's biggish or brilliant).  It might
take a little while.  Brandon and Rich are pro's at this, they know
how to deal with 40 part mixed text and binary horrors, so anything
you throw at them they can shar.

there are a number of other ways of distributing things.  find an ftp
site that will take your works; comp.archives or the Granrose list are
good candidates.  Better yet, find an FTP site that also has anonymous
UUCP or mail server access so that you can tell everyone who asks how
to get it.  bitnet listserv's might be appropriate too for some if
they're locally handy.  If you announce your new software in any of
over a hundred newsgroups, I'll probably find it and mention it to
comp.archives.

--Ed

Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept <emv at math.lsa.umich.edu>
moderator, comp.archives.