rmgrouping net.sources.*

[Jim R Oldroyd]

>[To quote eli at vcvax1.UUCP (eli):]
>> I propose that we remove net.sources and only allow the posting of
>> sources in mod.sources.* for the following reasons:
>
>		[reasons were given]

Here is another agreement.  Not only do we spend considerable telephone
times on the receipt of sources which are of either NO USE to us, or
of NO INTEREST to anyone here, but the sources which we do take off the
net, usually contain a high number of bugs and portability errors.

Those in the moderated group which I've looked at were somewhat better.

As a site which only takes those newsgroups we're interested in, I would
encourage the idea of removal of net.sources.* and the introduction of
a wider range of mod.sources.* groups.  Here is one place where mod.*
groups are ideal.

I would even like to propose:
	mod.sources.announce	- announcements of available source
	mod.sources.request	- requests for sources.  requests would
				  only need to be published if the
				  moderator(s) were unaware of the
				  existence of the desired source.

And the following groups for the actual publication of source if the
volume of requests are high:
	mod.sources		- for sources which should work everywhere
				  (and where the author has made a deliberate
				  attempt at removing system dependencies)
	mod.sources.usg
	mod.sources.bsd		- etc

and possibly also:
	mod.sources.mail
	mod.sources.news
	mod.sources.games	- etc
	mod.sources.fixes	- ??
-- 
"The Software did it".
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++ Jim R Oldroyd
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