Subject: v29INF3: Future plans for comp.sources.unix Newsgroups: comp.sources.unix,comp.sources.d Approved: paul@vix.com Submitted-by: paul@vix.com (Paul Vixie) Posting-number: Volume 29, Info 3 Archive-name: index29.3 This is the third introductory message about comp.sources.unix. The first described how to submit sources to comp.sources.unix, where the archive sites are, and how to contact them. The second one listed all the sources that have been published in this newsgroup. This one lists some of the moderator's plans for the future. -Paul Vixie 1. There's a new mailing list which receives copies of all articles posted on comp.sources.unix. The list is called (or uunet!pa.dec.com!unix-sources, for the domain impaired). Send requests about being added or deleted to the -request address, not to the moderator. If you were on the BRL list, you were moved to the new list automatically, some time ago. 2. We did finally alter our posting software so that parts 2..last of any submission, and any patches, have a "References:" header pointing back to part 1. This will make threaded news readers (and notes readers) happier. 3. We're going to restructure the archives and the index to group together all versions and patches for any package so that you can tell at a glance what the most recent version of something is, and where it is. We will not be deleting old versions, since although mostly useless, they have historic and sentimental value. We will endeavour to make the old-style index listings still "work", probably through the use of copious symbolic links on the archive hosts. (Volunteers needed for this effort.) 4. The time is now seriously overdue for some kind of WWW access to c.s.unix. Usenet is no longer the easiest way to distribute this stuff, but it is definitely easier to keep doing what we're doing than to think of (and implement) something new, so here we go with another volume of c.s.unix, late of mod.sources.