Please don't create a 3b2.* news distribution!

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Subject: Please don't create a 3b2.* news distribution!

Len - I appreciated the information you've posted on  making 3B2 boot floppies.
If you want to distribute software, *please* don't create a separate set of
newsgroups for it!

- distributions are a pain to administer, and cut your audience down a lot.
- some news software chokes if there are too many newsgroups
	which there almost are now

- there are very few things you can do on a 3B2 that aren't generic
	UNIX applications (unlike the unix-pc, which has it's own
	set of screen graphics which aren't generally portable.)
	It's ok to post an occasional 3B2-specific program to info-3b2
	if you want to do things like flash the green and red lights.

- there are existing newsgroups which handle portable UNIX sources
	such as comp.sources.unix (though I've also seen Sun-specific
	and 4.*BSD-specific and System V-specific sources there.)
- there are existing newsgroups like comp.sources.misc and alt.sources
	which will accept *any* software, except PC binaries

- portable source (i.e. most 3B2 programs) is useful to almost everyone,
	on almost every kind of machine, and most people won't read
	the 3b2 group
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