I guess it's a choice we need to be free to make. Sometimes the effort involved in making something sufficiently polished for publication is too much, when one is too self-conscious to dump a dog's breakfast for the Internet to vomit over forever (no reflection over David's coding).
There isn't a good place to draw that line, Devon, let's just encourage posting, maybe offer to help tidying up. If that doesn't work, then one must just accept the choice made by the originator. Lucio. PS: To push the point a bit: forty odd years ago the anecdote I heard involved an APL one-liner that erased itself on completion. I think that is "justified". On 12/31/18, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.od...@gmail.com> wrote: > This “send it to you privately” ethos is a problem on this list. Why not > make it public? > > —dho > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 2:55 PM David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > do you have a script that you used to generate the 9hist repository? >> > I always planned to ingest it into my venti. >> > >> > I have already put a few old floppy and cdrom from my past in >> > venti as limited /yyyy/mmdd/usr/steve/... so the 9hist could go in >> > as /yyyy/mmdd/sys/src/9/... >> >> Yes, but beware it's a throw-away script. I'll send it to you privately. >> >> -- >> David du Colombier >> >> > -- Lucio De Re 2 Piet Retief St Kestell (Eastern Free State) 9860 South Africa Ph.: +27 58 653 1433 Cell: +27 83 251 5824 FAX: +27 58 653 1435
