Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: alt.sys.sun????
Message-ID: <4030@phri.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 13:39:29 GMT
References: <12@dynasys.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In <12@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher - Sysadmin.) writes:
> Why two newsgroups about Sun systems?  Ah, someone will doubtless say the
> these are going to be about two aspects of Sun systems.

	The only reason a new group is being proposed is because the old
one is broken.  It's a moderated group (actually, a mailing list gatewayed
as a newsgroup) and the lag between when a message is submitted and when it
appears is just plain too long.  This has been a chronic problem for as
long as I can remember, spanning more than one moderator.  It's gotten
worse and it's gotten better, but it's never been completely solved.

	If I have a problem with a Sun system and submit a question to
comp.sys.sun/sun-spots, it is often weeks before I see my question come
back at me, and if somebody chooses to reply to the list, it can be weeks
more until I see the answer.  By that time, I've probably forgotten what
the question was because I've found some other way to solve the problem or
learned to live with it.

	With unmoderated groups, for example comp.unix-wizards, it is not
unusual for me to get a reply to a query within an hour of my posting, and
by the end of the day I often have a half-dozen replies, or even more if
I've said something really stupid :-(
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