From: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o) Subject: Re: NEW Products for Linux users from JANA Publishing Date: 17 Sep 1993 01:12:01 -0400
From: vince@victrola.wa.com (Vince Skahan)
Date: 14 Sep 1993 18:29:23 -0700
please do not include the garbage noise from c.o.l.* on the same
CD that has all the fine software you'll be mirroring from the
Linux archive sites. If you want to make a 100% noise CD of
c.o.l. postings, feel free to make a separate CD for it.
You'll have my order in a heartbeat after the Nov/Dec CD is available
unless it's all full with USENET postings. I'd be real interested
in getting (yes, paying for) a CD mirror of the archives however.
But not if the USENET noise is on the linux archive CD...
The complete c.o.l.* usenet postings for the entire history of Linux
fits in under 45 megabytes. Given how big a CD-ROM is (~800 meg), this
is a small fraction of space available. In fact, many CD-ROM which are
published are not filled to capacity, so it's not like including them
would necessarily be crowding anything else out.
If you think the Usenet postings are noise, ignore them. But there are
some jems hidden in there. Some people may be interested in access them
for reference purposes.
- Ted