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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: comp.sources.misc != alt.sources
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.202344.17575@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 16 Mar 91 20:23:44 GMT
References: <17900010@vantage.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Followup-To: comp.sources.d
Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast)
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As quoted from <17900010@vantage.UUCP> by ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere):
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| It seems to me that ... those unhappy with the turnaround time (the time
| between submission and posting) in comp.sources.unix could submit to
| comp.sources.misc. Obviously this is not occurring in several cases,
| so I would appreciate your thoughts on:
| 1) what are the main reasons why software is posted to alt.sources,
|    versus other places ...
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Insofar as comp.sources.misc is concerned, I suspect I get most of the
blame... twice.  First because things got downright nasty at work (and are
about to get worse AGAIN), so I didn't have time to do my job *or* choose
someone else to do it, and second because it looks like my chosen successor
isn't doing a whole lot better in the posting-time department.

There are also the folks who reject the concept of moderation completely.
It's not clear whether there are more of them than prefer moderation, nor is
it clear if any of them are numbered among the group that likes to flame
(including automatic flaming) people who post non-source to alt.sources.
What *is* clear is that there have been people who chose alt.sources over
comp.sources.misc because it is unmoderated (and told me when they did it).

I suspect that moderating sources groups demands too much time for most of the
net.denizens willing to do the job --- comp.sources.unix, comp.sources.misc,
and even comp.sources.games tend to have rather excessive lead times.

++Brandon
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