Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen
From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Telix
Message-ID: <636@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 90 20:35:23 GMT
References: <2156@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1990Mar15.062734.7831@uwasa.fi> <1259@forty2.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1259@forty2.UUCP> eichi@forty2.UUCP (Stefan Eichenberger) writes:

| Well, what's the moderators job then? There was the time, when comp.binaries.
| ibm.pc was unmoderated, and almost closed down for it's volume. Now, we seem
| to have a sort of an 'automated moderater' who has a script to get the biggest
| files from Simtel and post them immediatly to the group without even
| adding a line saying that it is a communication package. Does he really
| expect me to load all the garbage down just to find out I don't have use to
| it, because I don't need such a program at the moment?

  The moderator's job is to provide a flow of generally useful software,
leavened with an occasional odd tidbit, such as hard to find stuff or
really nifty programs which only a part of the readership will use.

  WHen sixhub was down for three days while I was trying to add disk for
the archive service and anon uucp nothing went out. I grabbed telix out
of order and queued it because (a) a lot of people wanted it after Keith
mentioned it, (b) it had been described by keith very recently, and (c)
I had sent my weekend pulling hardware apart and restoring files, and
wanted something I could queue and walk away from.

| What's the difference between completely uncommented postings and an un-
| moderated news group with its high noise level? BTW., remember the good
| reviews by Rahul?

  Remember the long silence?
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc
"Getting old is bad, but it beats the hell out of the alternative" -anon