Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen
From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why are upload announcements a problem?
Message-ID: <3567@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 91 22:51:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar29.215716.6263@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
Lines: 33

In article <1991Mar29.215716.6263@terminator.cc.umich.edu> sjr@mcimail.com writes:
| Keith Peterson wrote the following on 25 Mar 91:
| 
| >davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
| >>     comp.binaries.ibm.pc.ftp
| >>          For all the ftp sites to post their list of what they have
| >>          online.
| >
| >If you are tired of reading the individual upload announcements which
| >I've been forwarding to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d I can solve that
| >problem immediately by *not* forwarding them.  I thought the users
| >liked them because they usually give more than a one line description
| >of the uploaded files.
| 
| Whoa.  Time out.  I have to say Keith Peterson's messages are one of the
| main reasons why I read this newsgroup.

I have no idea why or how Keith read any criticism of his postings into
my original posting, nor why people are trying to defend them. I
proposed setting aside a whole group for postings from archive sites.
But when I'm trying to check through quickly to see if there are
problems or questions related to the binaries I posted I would rather
not wade through lists of ftp sites. And when I want to look for new
material which might be posted I'd like to find the lists in one place,
and not find them mixed with requests for reposts.

Let's understand what's being proposed, and why, before assuming that
every suggestion for a change is an attack.
-- 
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