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From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
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Subject: Re: Rich $alz is still alive ??!!!??!!
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Date: 10 Dec 90 06:46:41 GMT
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sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
[sorry i've been out of town or i would have responded sooner]
|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*.

i will admit that i shouldn't have been so definite as to say "too
slow" however i don't think your argument for the spurts is reasonable
because i don't know that r$ does the checking you suggest.  i do know
that things come out (such as the recent mlpd) untested because he
can't test them.  i select lpd because it does have the potential to be
a security risk.

|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).

i also think that r$ does as good a job as can be expected of one
person.  perhaps the *one* person is the problem.

|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.

bzzzzt. you lose, but thanks for playing.  since you mention me and trn
specifically i'll note that trn has been available on my ftp machine
since this summer (patch1 since october) and it works just fine for
me.  i've tried to avoid any of the acrimony that has been flowing over
this issue so i'll thank you not to presume to read my mind.  i'm well
aware of the difference between c.s.u and alt.sources.

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