comp.sources.reviewed -> comp.sources.posix
Paul Eggert
eggert at twinsun.com
Sat Mar 2 03:31:37 AEST 1991
I also have been troubled by the overbroad mandate and poorly chosen
name of comp.sources.reviewed. We used to have newsgroups with poorly
chosen names containing `moderated' or `mod', but I had thought we
learned our lesson that newsgroup names should reflect their contents,
not their editorial methods.
But karsten at tfl.dk writes:
>Many of the bested public domain packages have been ported from UNIX
>to other operating systems, and some the other way. In the future, we
>can expect people will comply with the posix standards, which will
>supported on many operating systems. So in the future packages will
>not be for one operating system.
This suggests that for sanity's sake, the newsgroup will stick to Posix
(or at least Posix-like) applications. It also suggests that competent
reviewers will check for Posix conformance. This will indeed be a
service to the computing community. If so, I suggest that the name of
the proposed newsgroup be changed to `comp.sources.posix', because it
will reflect the newsgroup's contents far more accurately.
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