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From: ahaley@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Alexander Haley)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Missing parts
Message-ID: <3441@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 6 Dec 89 21:53:13 GMT
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Reply-To: ahaley@jarthur.UUCP (Alexander Haley)
Distribution: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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	I disagree about reposting.  I have never had a problem with
receiving every part of a multipart program here.  Most of the times when I
see a flood of messages about missing such-and-such a part, i have already
received those parts, albeit a little out of numerical order, but if you've
been subscribed to c.b.i.p. for a while, you will realize that things do not
always go out or come in in numerical order.  This happens with mail as
well.  Just between two of the machines that we have here at our site, I've
seen many times when two messages were sent from one to the other about an
hour apart, the second message can be received up to two hours before the
first one.
	I am always appalled at the number of repost requests that come out
immediately following a small batch of parts.  Like a request for parts 3
and 4 if parts one and two come one day without 3 and 4.  I think that
before asking for people to repost or to send them these parts they should
wait a couple of days and make sure that something didn't just get stuck 
somewhere along the way.  It is not as though they will die without the
program right now, and if it saves net resources, yet still gets everything
to everyone, then it is good for everyone involved.
	Have patience people, things don't always happen the way you want
them to and that's even when you're paying for it, so when you're not, live
and go with it.  I think Rahul's doing a great job.  I know that I barely
have enough time to review for my own use or for the school's lab, the
programs that I get weekly, so I have no idea how he's doing it.  Whatever
it is he does, I want him to keep it up.
					-Alex