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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ftp location of conquest
Message-ID: <2470.276cc0dd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 17 Dec 90 17:58:04 GMT
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In article <2591@sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> However, I'm not about to post it again, I want to get caught up for the
> holidays.

Bill, I'm inquiring because I'm ignorant, not to express any
dissatisfaction.  Your service is a wonderful boon.

It would seem like posting it again would be about three times
as much work as posting the article that triggers my questions.
How would doing so interfere with getting caught up?  Do you
ration the c.b.i.p load on the network and posting x means there
is no room to post y?  Do you file things away in an archive
after they are posted and it is a nuisance to go back and find
one?  Do you keep records of your activities that become onerous
to maintain when you are reposting something?

I have been watching what becomes visible from your work and that
of some other moderators and trying to understand the job of
moderating a news group.  Your remark quoted above makes me
suspect that a quarter of what I thought I knew ain't so.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com