On flames and sources

[Darren Friedlein]

In article <240 at magnus.UUCP> mml at magnus.UUCP (Mike Levin) writes:
>In article <417 at icus.UUCP> lenny at icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>>
>>|>sources group would be useful.  If Lenny's willing to do that, great.
>>|>Lenny: can you handle keeping all the stuff online and available for
>>|>anonymous uucp?
>>|>
>>If I would take the responsibily of being the unix-pc.sources moderator,
>>I would have a little learning to do.  Yes, I would allow anon-uucp 
>>pickups, and keep the sources online.  There isn't a *big* volume of
>>that either, so storage wouldn't be too much of a problem.   I haven't
>>gotten that many replies... most of them are split 1/2 and 1/2 about
>>making unix-pc.sources moderated.
>>
>
>I feel somewhat responsible for starting this whole ruckus, with an article
>I posted urging folks to not *cross-post*, and suggesting that a moderated
>sources group would be a good idea.  I would just like to say that there has
>been a *bit* of software posted which was incomplete, not ported to the 3B1,
>etc.  I say if Lenny is *WILLING* to moderate this group, I'm all for it.  I
>think that's a good way to ensure some continuity.  For those folks who wish
>to post little scripts, etc., we could *also* have an un-moderated group.
>For example:
>...

I'm afraid I have to disagree.  I haven't seen a program come through
unix-pc.sources that was incomplete or not ported.  My experience with
moderated newsgroups is that it takes forever to get programs out
(especially if you're going to test them first).  If this were a high-
volume newsgroup with lots of trash posted to it, I'd be all for
moderation -- that's the purpose of moderation -- to keep the trash
out.  I haven't seen that happen, though.  Moderating unix-pc.sources
might also cause some software to be posted to unix-pc.general.

If the decision, however, *IS* to moderate, unix-pc.general, and Lenny,
you're willing to take that on, you have my vote too.

I think a better compromise would be to find someone (maybe Lenny) who
is willing to keep all the sources that are posted on-line for ftp.

>					Mike Levin
>
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