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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Rich $alz is still alive ??!!!??!!
Message-ID: <1990Dec04.055452.7522@kithrup.COM>
Date: 4 Dec 90 05:54:52 GMT
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In article <48564@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) writes:
>1) c.s.u. has been too slow of late.  

I don't think it has been.  Someone in news.admin posted a little graph
showing number of files over a year or two, and, yes, there were spurts, but
that could easily be because some packages (such as SPS, for example) need
to be tested to make sure they don't contain any trojans, or at least
*build*.

Now, frankly, I think Rich has been doing a jim dandy job, for the most
part.  The relative infrequency generally doesn't bother me (this recent
"lapse" is nothing; the only one that got to me was a three or four month
absence, at which point I asked him if he was still alive).

What *did* get to me, however, was the fact that TRN, recently posted, was
unbuildable by at least two people (myself and another poster in this
group).  I find it very hard to shake the feeling that perhaps rich was
rushed to post it because of people, such as Mr. Graham, thinking that c.s.u
is the same as alt.sources.

One of the nice things about c.s.u is that, generally, one can be certain
that the programs posted there will at least compile for the systems rich
has access to, and will, generally, behave the way they're supposed to.  Try
grabbing stuff from alt.sources, for example, to see how well things posted
to a moderatorless group work.

Oh, and yeah:  rich recommended (about a year ago?) that people post to
alt.sources for "beta testing" before they submit it to c.s.u.  I think that
is a very good idea, and wish more people would take it up.

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
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