Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:23:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@lambert.org, sandy@lapkin.rosprint.ru, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CCITT support in current Message-ID: <199602122323.QAA21297@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199602122242.PAA20517@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 12, 96 03:42:10 pm
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> > I think the recent attempt to get rid of XNS is ill-considered. There > > are still a lot of XNS terminal servers out there. They are critically > > cheap for a startup ISP. > > I think that Terry's recent attempt to sway folks into thinking that > Garrett is going to 'remove' all traces of XNS from public view is > ill-mannerred. The CVS tree is publically accessible, and contains the > bits if anyone is willing to 'champion' them. I only want it installable of the CDROM do that people will not have to work very, very hard to get it up to snuff, above and beyond the code modification necessary. Hiding the code in the basement with the cousing no one talks about adds a large barrier to entry to getting the code "up to snuff". > However, until that happens (are you volunteering for it since you see > the obvouis usefulness of the code?) it should not be part of the > normally distributed system. I left my XNS hardware to the University when I moved out of Utah; I have no way of handling this without hardware, or I *would* handle it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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