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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: whereis utility
Message-ID: <2599@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 13:49:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.2599
Posted: Tue Sep 29 13:49:26 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Oct-87 05:34:58 EDT
References: <2490@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
Lines: 50
Keywords: patience, trust.
Summary: Please, everybody, STOP posting software here!

In article <2490@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> hsgj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Dan Green) writes:
>
>A while ago I promised that I'd post a "whereis" utility to
>comp.sources.amiga.  I posted it on Sept 7, 1987.  Today is Sept 28
>and it still hasn't shown up yet.  Rather then trying again, I
>am simply going to send this to comp.sys.amiga.  Hopefully this
>does not anger too many people.

I'm NOT angry.  However, we are a small (12000 subscribers) part of the whole
USENet community, and when all the sources and binaries were being posted here
a while back, there were loud threats all along the backbone to cut us off
at the knees, because we had the (one of the?) heaviest byte counts of all
newsgroups.  Recently, there have been two hard-drive backup utilities posted
here, now the routine to whose posting this is a response, and several other
people have also grown too impatient to wait, and added fuel to the fire.

Now hard drive users are probably a small part of the Amiga community (I sure
wish I could spring for one!) and I don't think such a small audience is going
to die off if they have to wait six weeks extra for free software.  I know that
developers of public domain stuff want the feedback, the bug reports, the
glory, or whatever.  Fine, but please be patient.

Every day or two, new files show up from doc in comp.sources.amiga and in
comp.binaries.amiga; the newsgroups are live.  After seeing all the extra
care doc took with my own posting (thanks again Craig!) to make sure it came
out in a form suitable for all the Amiga community, I was pretty happy that I
had waited, even if the wait was five weeks.

Can't we all be ladies and gentlemen about this, and stifle our impatience?
Being a moderator is a killer job, and doc had some pretty severe start up
troubles, so he has some catching up to do.  Personally, I won't take anything
that doesn't come through his hands anymore; it sure is nice to have someone
else filter out the Trojan horses and worms; I don't know how.

Let's NOT put ourselves on the net-god's hit list again, OK?  Send it to doc,
and wait.  If you think he died, or graduated, or something, send him a note
and ask him if he got your stuff, and if there is a problem getting it out.

Thanks.

Kent, the man from xanth.

		His expression lit up.  "Hey, you wouldn't be
		a dope smuggler, would you?"

		Rail looked confused.  "Why would anyone wish
		to smuggle stupidity when there is so much of
		it readily available?"

			-- Alan Dean Foster, GLORY LANE