Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!news From: tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Star Goose Docs Message-ID: <1991Feb25.121022.27060@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Date: 25 Feb 91 12:10:22 GMT References: <59578@aurs01.UUCP> <2744@sparko.gwu.edu> <59580@aurs01.UUCP> <3250@sixhub.UUCP> <1991Feb21.124047.27606@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <3279@sixhub.UUCP> Sender: news@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Lab Lines: 72 In article <3279@sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) says: > >In article <1991Feb21.124047.27606@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin) writes: > >| So the assumption is that if I don't see anything that I sent in, it got >| thrown away? > > Never. If I don't use something I'm very careful to tell the submitter >why I didn't. If you don't see it in a month or so then you might ask if >I got it. When I take things out of the first hopper and determine that >all the parts came in I send a first thank you. When the review is done >and the item goes into the actual queue ready to post I send another. >But if the thank you bounces... tough. I just can't take time to chase >anyone based on the mail addresses I get. If the header or the .sig >aren't useful I forget it. > Understood. I received a message from you (or your mailer) that said that you did get the first program. Nothing from the second but I sent it in in the past few weeks. > > Stuff is running 2-5 weeks because of how long it takes to review. Did >the first thank you have a paragraph about uuencoders which use blanks >instead of ` so the trailing blanks get eaten in mailing? Did I get five >parts with no part numbers in the header? Did I get a load of uuencoded >SOMETHING with no clue in the first message as to what this is? Or a >self unpacking binary? If any of these things are true then it goes in a >"slush pile" and I do a few a day. The ones which come in with a >description, part numbers, clean encoding... those go out faster. > I don't remember the gist of the first message. Just that it was received. I don't think there was anything about blanks because I would have resent it corrected. I'm sure that I sent a small paragraph stating what it was and I made sure to put the name and 01/01 in the subject. I sent in a .zoo file. I remember because you said that it was what you prefered so I had to unzip it and zoo it back up. The second one may have been a .zip file. It was in response to the small disk utility that was posted a week or two ago. Free returns the total drive space, how much is left and the current directory for each drive. I thought it was a better utility than the one posted. The two programs I sent were small (the first about 50k the second no more than 20k). > We used to have a problem with nothing going out, now we have a >problem with more coming in than going out. We are staying in the top >ten groups for volume every month, so I guess the readers are getting a >fair share, just the posters are getting delayed. Since there's a step >which is currently being taken between machines via floppy disk, I could >lose a disk full of submissions and have no fallback. After I write it >and read it back the submissions are blown away from the machine which >gets the stuff first. > > It could be worse. Look at comp.sources.unix. >-- While I have had no reason to look at that group, I agree that you are doing a great job. I am certainly NOT complaining about the posts in any way. I will unzoo, delzh, unzip, unarc or whatever you want to do. I consider it your group and we're just kibitzers (sp?). Thanks again for doing such a great job. >bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) > sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX > moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list >"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me Carl Schelin tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu