Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!sgi!koosh!bob From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: status comp.sys.sun Summary: The real solution is to get the stuff out more quickly Keywords: comp sys sun status Message-ID: <917@mondo.omni.com> Date: 22 Sep 89 14:33:48 GMT References: <1555@ndmath.UUCP> <894@koosh.omni.com> <413@bilver.UUCP> <746@vector.Dallas.TX.US> Organization: OMNI Solutions, Mountain View, CA Lines: 23 In article <746@vector.Dallas.TX.US>, chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) writes: > The solution I use in comp.dcom.telecom is to check the "Date:" of each > TELECOM Digest message prior to posting and strip it if greater than some > number of days. > > If the eventual moderator of comp.sys.sun is reading this, drop me a note > if you want the software which does this. I made the offer three or four > or five moderators ago :-) and it was never taken up. Ack! No, please, no! The real solution is to not keep submissions in the queue for so long that they would be rejected by the software. The whole point of this medium is timeliness. If I wanted to read month-old articles, I'd subscribe to print magazines. -- Bob Weissman UUCP: ...!{apple,pyramid,sgi,tekbspa,uunet}!koosh!bob Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.