Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!xanth!abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov!tadguy From: tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: comp.binaries.amiga ---> too much coming? Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 90 13:38:18 GMT References: <02362.AA02362@sosaria.imp.com> <132974@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@cs.odu.edu Organization: NASA/Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA Lines: 17 In-reply-to: deven@rpi.edu's message of 19 Mar 90 12:59:29 GMT In article deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: > A nice idea, but I've noticed that the "dribble" approach appears more > prone to losing one or a few parts of a multipart posting. I would expect more lossage from a quick series of postings than a slow series since the quick one is likely to overflow disks somewhere. Fortunately, I haven't (yet) had trouble with either. (yeah, right). > I don't know if there's a good reason for this or if it is simply a > skewed observation, but it is a nuisance to have 9 of 10 parts -- > usually no more useful than having none. *sigh* Since it's all archived on xanth.cs.odu.edu, on a separate disk than news is kept on, sites missing few parts can find them by anonymous ftp or through bitftp... ...tad