Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!oliveb!tymix!cirrusl!dhesi%cirrusl From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: delays in comp.binaries.ibm.pc Message-ID: <1128@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 89 05:48:24 GMT Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Reply-To: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. Lines: 24 Recently I saw some discussion about delays in stuff getting posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc. Several months ago I raised the issue of a "rush" category for comp.binaries.ibm.pc software. Such software would be untested or only very minimally tested, and posted immediately. Public opinion was greatly *against* doing this. Currently I test everything posted to my own satisfaction, and I'm a fairly picky user. The speed with which postings appear is thus governed by the speed at which I do the testing. The actual posting process is not the bottleneck. If there is widespread sentiment in favor of software being posted untested or being tested much less throughly, you will get a greater volume of software. But it will be of more uncertain quality and will be accompanied by much sparser editorial comments from me. So ultimately what you want the user want is roughly what you will get. I will follow the raging discussion (and flame wars) that will likely follow. Rahul Dhesi UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi