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From: hartung@amos.ucsd.edu.ling.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Telix
Summary: Isn't this what everyone *asked* for?!?
Keywords: Telix, moderator, binaries
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Date: 18 Mar 90 16:39:29 GMT
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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

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>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?

Yes, there were BIG problems with unmoderated c.b.i.p, but when Rahul slowed
down, LOTS of people asked for a return to the (admittedly unworkable)
situation.  Rahul was suggesting, at the time, a RUSH category, where he
indicated that he had not had the time to properly review the software and had
only performed a virus check and repackaged the archive as a ZOO archive.
Many wanted this.

As far as your "What's the difference..." question is concerned, I can think
of a couple w/o trying very hard:

1. Virus scanning (Bill has said that this is a minimum requirement before he
   posts anything.

2. No multiple postings of the same program / unnecessary reposts.

3. No postings of "new" versions of a program that come out monthly w/ slight
   bugfixes or minimal changes.  I used to see this alot in the "bad old
   (unmoderated) days."

4. The programs actually work.

Granted, I think that we'd all like to see moderator commentary when possible,
and an indication that this is a popular communications package might have
been worth Bill's effort, but _most_ of us had heard Telix (a totally KILLER
program, IMHO) discussed before, and I cannot understand _anyone_ calling it a
waste of a download to find out what it was.  Do you download at 300 bps, or
what?

 --Jeff Hartung--  	
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