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Subject: Re: new moderated newsgroup(s) for Atari ST software distrbution
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 21:23:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 21:23:53 1987
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In article <1073@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
... various obnoxious things.

Well, to throw my two-cents-worth in, I think it would be a distinct shame if
binaries were no longer distributed via usenet, though I strongly concur with
the opinion that such distribution should be carefully moderated.  So far, we
have received N copies of a version of uniterm that was not only out of date
but did not have the permission of the author to be distributed;  we have
received N revisions of "more", "bucket", "barrel", etc. in the space of just
a few days, and while I am very grateful for the fact that they have appeared
and have been so quickly revised and debugged, I think that the lag that
inevitably occurs with moderation would reduce the likelihood of multiple copies
of such things.

Also, although I think an "ask-Atari" moderated group is likely to be of little
or no use, I don't think it is necessary to respond that commercial services
are appropriate replacements for usenet.  Any sort of knowledge dissemination
we can get out of usenet is good, as long as it doesn't become simply wasteful.
grunau@husc4.UUCP

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For BITNET, I believe the hostname is "harvard".