Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mcnc!xanth!abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov!tadguy From: tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: quick/slow posting (was Re: comp.binaries.amiga ---> too much coming?) Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 90 14:34:25 GMT References: <1990Mar22.191314.10392@digibd> Sender: news@cs.odu.edu Organization: NASA/Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA Lines: 16 In-reply-to: steve@digibd's message of 22 Mar 90 19:13:14 GMT In article <1990Mar22.191314.10392@digibd> steve@digibd (Steve Wahl) writes: > The point is, when a moderator has something to distribute, he has all the > parts, and if something's going to be trickle-posted, he can probably > schedule when each part is going to be posted BEFORE he posts the first > part. This isn't true in my case, since the shipping of the articles depends on the amount of free disk space available on xanth, which could (and has) delayed postings unpredictably. > I offer no guarantees whatsoever that people who panic now at 9 parts of 10 > wouldn't ignore all this information anyway and continue to panic. And we'll taunt them to no ends... :-) ...tad