Anonymous FTP list - who archives alt.sources?

[James Cummings]

In article <18978 at well.sf.ca.us> Jef Poskanzer <jef at well.sf.ca.us> writes:
>So basically, there is no archive of alt.sources in North America, and
>there may or may not be one anywhere.
>
>Is this really the case?  I've always posted as if alt.sources was not
>archived, but I still kind of assumed it was archived somewhere.  I
>guess not.

	Speaking from the point of a system administrator, what you find
archived in comp.sources."what-ever" will not be found in alt.sources.
I would think that the reason most sites don't archive alt.sources or the
reason that you found no apparent indexes is:  the administrator would
have to *manually* create the files and the indexes.  I always wondered
what those numbers were at the begining of comp.sources.unix postings,
now I know.  At least for Bnews, the news system can't parse the "free-form"
subject headers of most alt.sources postings.  Many of the alt.sources
postings have headers like so: <please excuse the size>


Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Update to getarg
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.124210.24079 at druid.uucp>
Date: 11 Jul 90 12:42:10 GMT
References: <1990Jul11.003712.21570 at druid.uucp>
Reply-To: darcy at druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Distribution: alt
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
Lines: 516

Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: A .signature changing program
Message-ID: <26992667.88f at petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 10 Jul 90 00:50:47 GMT
Reply-To: dgross at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Dave Gross)
Organization: Card Carrying Member of the ACLU
Lines: 115


From: lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,alt.sources
Subject: Re: uumerge.pl
Message-ID: <8662 at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 10 Jul 90 02:09:26 GMT
References: <1990Jul7.182135.19069 at alembic.acs.com> <qskfe2.[75 at smurf.sub.org> <3317 at tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Reply-To: lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Lines: 45

	As you can see the form is different.  There is a real lack of
consistency in the Subject lines that are to be parsed by the archive
program.  (Larry Wall's posting was even a reply to some other posting).

	Possibly if someone would like to start moderating the group
or get together with others and develop a subject header that would be 
useable by archive...... 
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