REPOST lharc102A Part 01/04 BSD Unix to Amiga archives

[Kent Paul Dolan]

xanthian at zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
Whether from stupidity or malice, part 2 of the previous four part
posting got cancelled, so here comes the whole thing again, as I have no
record of where the previous split on the uuencoded data was done.
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tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
Speaking of inherent robustness, eh?  We can't have polite 'REPOST - Part 4' 
source postings any more because binary gibberish doesn't split that well.
So if there's an error, we ship the whole huge twice-compressed thing TWICE!
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Email interactions with the moderator of alt.sources.index provided a copy
of what turned out to be a forged cancellation message; a copy was posted
to news.admin.

Some person with an axe to grind about uuencoded source archives chose to
do a little net.vandalism rather than engage in dialog.  Since the control
message was inserted directly at uunet.uu.net, it is probably impossible to
trace this childish behavior back to its originator.

The total repost turned out to have been unnecessary, as the original was
still online at this site, but I found that out considerably later when I
went back to cancel the remaining three articles of the original posting
and found the cancelled one still online here (of course).  By that point
it seemed prudent to continue on the existing course.

Suggestions that the results of vandalism should be used to judge the merits
of a source code distriution mechanism are warped at best.

Kent, the man from xanth.
<xanthian at Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian at well.sf.ca.us>