From: jack@solucor.uucp (Jacques Gelinas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.r4
Subject: Re: gawk-2.14.tar has been uploaded to US4BINR
Date: 22 Dec 92 04:58:07 GMT
Organization: solucorp

tener@cs.widener.edu (Stuart Tener) writes:

>Jacques Gelinas:

>	Everytime something new is added to the US4BINR server, you
>	seem to feel the need to publish a bulletin. This is a teribble
>	waste of resources. To make things worse you seem to also have
>	the neeed to make these bulletins quite wordy. Why not just list
>	all new software available on the server each week or month?
>	Is it really necessary to publish all this information everytime
>	you get a new binary?

>	Why not just publish a monthly list of new updates? All these
>	constant news articles do is jam up the network more. As

>	thank you,

>	stuart b. tener
>	tener@cs.widener.edu

Lately, few people have complained that my posting
announcing uploads are somewhat excessive in length.
Let's clarify a little bit.

1-US4BINR is a binary archive for UNIX System V Release 4
on 386 and 486 PCs. It DOES NOT CARRY SOURCE, only BINARY
EXECUTABLE programs with documentation. While there is plenty
of archive site on the net, few carry binaries, few
targets specific UNIX architecture.

US4BINR is modeled after the SIMTEL20 and GARBO examples.
Uploads are done in a control fashion.

For many of us, those posting are not new. Some complained
that these announces are getting old. True, the packages are
available for some time on the net. But in source form. For many,
the availability in binary form is NEW for the UNIX they have.

In this regard, US4BINR
is playing catchup. You should see most of the oldies
uploaded here (us4binr) sooner or later. After a while, you will see original
stuff (or more current stuff) tightly following the sources release.
Sometime, there won't be any source release :-(

2-comp.unix.sysv386 and comp.unix.sys5.r4 are TEMPORARY
homes for this project. Just to make people aware that
binary site for SVR4 386 do exist.

I am currently writting the charter
of two new groups, comp.binaries.unix386.archives and
comp.binaries.unix386.archives.d.

3-This kind of posting are common for other OS. Just
look at comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives. If fact, these
posting are quite effective, because people won't download
something just to find out that this is not at all what they
need. Of course this is done in a special newsgroup.

There are some tools to maintain a local database
of all announces. Using the net to do so is fairly
efficient. It avoids the download of a complete index
everytime someone is looking for something. This is the
reason why posting a single line is not so useful.

4-Once in a while, I will post a list of the
latest uploads. One line per uploads. Again immitating
what is done at SIMTEL and GARBO. This posting will be post
in comp.binaries.unix386.archives. For a short
period I will crosspost to comp.unix.sysv386 just to advertise
the existence of c.b.u.a

You should see the official proposition of the newsgroup
creation shortly.


Thanks!
Comments are welcome!



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Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucor.uucp)
Maintainer of US4BINR jacques@us4binr.login.qc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit