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- From: argv@island.uu.net (Dan Heller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.x
- Subject: v04INF3: README
- Message-ID: <938@island.uu.net>
- Date: 25 Jul 89 08:50:44 GMT
- Approved: island!argv@sun.com
-
- Submitted-by: Dan Heller <island!argv@cad.berkeley.edu>
- Posting-number: Volume 4, Info 3
- Archive-name: info4.3
-
- If you haven't noticed, and you should have, the last posting of
- xconf all had the same subject:
- xconf -- X-based conferencing tool, Part01/05
- Yes, even tho they are all labelled part 01/05, rest assured that
- they are all different. Just unshar them all and you'll see.
- So much for writing clever shell scripts....
-
- And something new... there has been lots of discussion going on about
- the Patch-To: header for source postings which contain patches...
- Therefore, if you are sending me a patch to a previous posting, please
- include info about the original archive name, volume and issue number
- as it appeared in this newsgroup! If you are sending a patch to
- something that hasn't been posted to this newsgroup, then don't worry
- about it.
-
- Now, I wish to do a top ten list..
- Your attention please...
-
-
- "Top 10 pet peeves of the comp.sources.x moderator."
-
- 10. Submissions that do not contain a README or Imakefile file.
-
- 9. Submissions that do not contain a man page.
-
- 8. People who ask me if there are any postscript previewers available.
-
- 7. People who send me sources using uuencode (use "shar" files < 75K each).
-
- 6. Programs that don't compile right the first time.
-
- 5. That guy who sends me those digitized frames from the Rob Lowe video.
-
- 4. Shell scripts that post the wrong subject line.
-
- 3. Patches that don't apply correctly.
-
- 2. No, I don't know when R4 is going to be released.
-
- And the #1 pet peeve by the comp.sources.x moderator...
-
- 1. Requests for previous postings to be resent to them.
-
- -----------
- All seriousness aside... on the last point, I keep a backlog of about
- 2 weeks for postings and then out they go. We just don't have the disk
- space for this stuff. Besides, there are much easier and faster ways to
- get postings that you missed. Those of you with ftp access can merely
- ftp to uunet.uu.net or some other locale if that's not possible. There
- are places all over the US that advertises itself as an archive site for
- sources and stuff. If you don't have ftp, then many of these archive
- sites have email based message systems where you can just mail to it a
- request for a particular source and it automatically sends it to you.
-
- Those of you who run such a site (including uunet), please mail me info
- about your site and what kind of automated system you're running and I
- will keep a database for those who missed this note or who decided not
- to read this article :-). This question comes up so often that I'd just
- assume have a canned reply for each one.
-