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From: burleigh@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh)
Subject: Re: Why are upload announcements a problem?
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.043535.11106@cica.indiana.edu>
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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 04:35:35 GMT

In <1991Mar29.215716.6263@terminator.cc.umich.edu> sjr@mcimail.com (Sander J. Rabinowitz) writes:

>Keith Peterson wrote the following on 25 Mar 91:

>>davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>>>     comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
>>>          For all the requests for programs and parts thereof
>>>     comp.binaries.ibm.pc.ftp
>>>          For all the ftp sites to post their list of what they have
>>>          online.
>>[keith suggests he might not post his simtel uploads anymore...]

>[sander asks keith to keep them coming because they are useful.
> but agress with bill that there's a lot of crap in cbip.d].

i agree with bill's suggested additional groups; this group is
flooded with posts that are not only well beyond discussion of
the binaries bill reviews and posts, but too often well beyond
the discussion of non-commercial 'binaries' anyway.  maybe 20
percent of the posts here belong in the ...msdos.apps group.

bill's suggestion to have a cbip.ftp doesn't imply that keith's
posts aren't useful.  the issue is finding a place for keith's
posts.  them being here never troubled me, but they might be
more widely read in a more heavily travelled group.  i doubt
that would be cbip.ftp though, as the binaries hierarchy may
be implicitly understood to be tied to the moderated 
binaries distribution group.

we need more discussion about this.  meantime, some posters
should consider directing some of their posts to ...apps.

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