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In <3eCX02wo28gL01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> paf@uts.amdahl.com
# Perhaps some sort of "kit" with the commonly requested programs could
# be send out once every few months? 1 megabyte or so a year would probably be
# sufficient. My canidates would be news, patch, uudecode/encode, arc (or
# equivilant), binhex, shar. In short the programs necessary to access and
# extract news programs/articles.

In article <246@nlgvax.UUCP> hans@nlgvax.UUCP (Hans Zuidam) writes:
# Some sort of "kit" would be *really* usefull. It would allow a new site
# to be up and running with the correct software in no time. However, posting
# such a kit every x months would be a gross waste of bandwidth assuming that
# most sites are running the correct software.
#
# When I was a (sort of) system manager at another site a couple of years
# ago it was a hell of a problem just to get started. I did not know if I
# had the correct software, saw people talking about patches I did not have,
# didn't know if I needed them and so on. When you start with a Usenet
# connection you generally do not even know what you *do* need. If you
# help a new site to get online you have to dig software from all corners
# of your filesystems ;-) and forget half. This takes a lot of time for both
# parties involved.

I totally agree. A kit does need to be created. The kit list could be a
list of all the software that should be distributed to each new site on
the net. The new site would receive the kit list and the associated software
from the site that it was connecting to. My objection is to having the 
software designated on the kit list transmitted through everyone's sites.

The software associated with the kit list is already available on most
sites. If a kit list was created, the admins of the sites helping a new
site "connect to the net" could use the kit list as a checklist to assure
that the new site has all the "standard tools".

			-Kent+
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