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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Need help uploading application to c.b.i.p.
Message-ID: <1352@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 90 01:38:37 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <9601@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM> alanr@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Alan N Rovner) writes:

| I haven't seen anything show up on c.b.i.p. after about 3 weeks which brings 
| up another question.  What is the typical lag time from when an application is 
| posted to c.b.i.p until it shows up on the net?  I realize that Bill does this
| as a "hobby" and it may take awhile. (None of these comments are intended to be
| a flame at Bill).

  It takes about 3 hours a day to do everything including the virus
checks. You may have noticed that we are getting 200-500k a day out now,
due to increased room in my spool directory.

  A submission goes through three queues. The long one is the one from
the time when I get it on the ibmbin machine until I'm ready to do
something with it. At that point you should get a note saying it arrived
and that it's not decoded yet. Depending on the format I'll be able to
decode it in anywhere from five minutes to three weeks (the last for
self extracting archives).

  After I decode it, check for viruses, and test it, I either queue it
to got to sixhub, or I send it to a reviewer. I'm doing almost all my
own reviews now, to catch up on the backlog from my time out. Typical
time unless I send it to someone else is two days.

  Then it goes to sixhub, where it is put in line to be sent out by "at"
some morning when my phone rates are low. That runs about a week.

  There you have it, the path of a submission from my mailbox to yours.

  I hope to get the time down to about a week total, but the submission
rate is high, and some things have time value and have to go quickly.
Others, like some games from Timo Salmi, are waiting for either another
week of games or filler.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me