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I'd vote yes for c.s.ps moderated, no for c.s.ps.d, and suggest that
anything that gets misposted either gets redirected to c.l.p or the
original sender, at the moderator's discretion.

It also might not be a bad idea for the moderator to have a copy of
the FAQ on hand to send to those who ask FAQs.

There should probably be a FAQ for the sources group which explains
how to access the archives; it'd also be nice if it gets reposted
whenever it expires. That'd likely cut down on the "could somebody
please repost that xyz2eps program" request.

And, on the content of the group: I wouldn't mind seeing an occasional
source that generates PostScript if it does something novel or especially
useful, but I see non-PS postings being the rare exception. And for the
acceptable file formats? Straight ASCII, whenever possible; shell
archives when not (as they're just ASCII files with some extra things that
make it easy for Unix to extract and assemble). If compression is
absolutely necessary, use the RLE built into PS Level 2, and let the printer
deal with the compression. Sure, it might be slow and not everybody has
a Level 2 device yet, but those with the high-speed connections who would
actually download such a large file will probably have access to something
with Level 2. As a bonus, anybody who posts such a file might want to
include something which writes the uncompressed file to the standard
output.

All for now.

b&