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From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
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Subject: Re: lots of trn problems
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Date: 22 Dec 90 04:44:51 GMT
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sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
|pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) writes:
|
|In the
|mean time, try getting the files as posted, even the updates, and merely
|running them through 'sh'.  They won't work.

this doesn't have anything to do with what's being discussed.  perhaps
you should reread the relevant articles.

|
|>2) a rather unrealistic view of comp.sources.unix.
|
|Not really.  c.s.u is supposed do minimal testing; *any* moderator should do
|minimal testing, at least to the point where the problems with unpacking trn
|wouldn't have shown up.

please show me the document that delineates the exact responsibilities of
the moderator.  in any case r$ may have tested it, found that it worked
and then had a (rare) failure in his packaging tools.

|I am not exaggerating in any way, shape, form when I say that trn could not
|be successfully unpacked.

so what.  you said the software was unusable.  that's not true.  you may
have had problems, i didn't.

|>3) probably a rather unrealistic view of the world in general.
|
|Not really.  Once again:  if you release something through c.s.u (as opposed
|to alt.sources), you should expect to be expected to provide at least
|minimal support.  Not *one* of the messages I've sent through email has
|gotten a reply, and it's been a week or two now.

i'm imagine that this assertertion is based in the same document you
have that describes the moderators duties.

|
|>needless to say trn has worked fine here since august, both before and
|>after patch1.
|
|Really?  You got it off of the latest c.s.u post in august?  How, pray tell,
|did you manage that?  Tachyonic ethernet?

no, i got a copy of the sources when they were sent to c.s.u via another
channel as any number of other satisfied trn users did.

|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."
|Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.

i see.
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