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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Suggestion for comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Keywords: SCAN CLEANUP VSHIELD
Message-ID: <2743@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 90 02:47:37 GMT
References: <4525@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <4525@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US> mholtz@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Mark A. Holtz) writes:
| I have a suggestion for comp.binaries.ibm.pc. Since McAfee's SCAN,

  Currently I have been getting the new versions out with a few days (in
some cases hours) of availability. I can do this because I have lots of
shell scripts which handle zoo files, and a zoo archiver which runs on
UNIX. 

  We don't distribute the zip unarchiver, so of course someone will have
to offer to mail a copy with instructions to everyone on earth who
doesn't have it and can't figure out how to use it. I get about 40
requests a week for the stuff which goes out every other week if that
gives you some idea what the volume would be. I'm spending 12-15 hours a
week on this now, there are no more, what goes into supporting a new
format for a small number of submissions comes out of posting other
things.

  If people don't feel that the format I use is convenient, then I
certainly am willing to stop posting antiviral software.
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