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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Automated extraction of programs from c.b.i.p postings.
Message-ID: <1337@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 90 02:46:15 GMT
References: <5213@castle.ed.ac.uk> <3994@trantor.harris-atd.com> <623@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM> <1990Jul22.200236.26809@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Jul22.200236.26809@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:

| But the moderator had decided not to use ABE, I was never told why.

  The decision on archiver and encoder was made by vote of the readers,
not by the moderator. The moderator didn't decide to override that
because:

	1. It doesn't help the moderator
	2. it means the moderator has to distribute additional
	   software, instead of using something which is part of news.
	3. It means users have to get more software, and people at
	   site where you can't compile stuff on the UNIX box will
	   be cut off.
	4. it means c.b.i.p would be diferent from the other groups.
	5. It means the moderator has to rewrite 30-something admin
	   scripts, or at least check that each one does not use
	   coding in any way.

  Right now the group is back on an even keel and we're getting about
2MB a week of stuff out. As the readers if they want to convert to a new
system to avoid having to save their postings in order. As about
rewriting the starter kit.

  I am totally against changing the archiver or the encoder, because it
has a relatively high cost and low return.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me