Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo!mtune!codas!usfvax2!jc3b21!fgd3 From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: whereis utility Message-ID: <184@jc3b21.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 16:30:42 EDT Article-I.D.: jc3b21.184 Posted: Sun Oct 4 16:30:42 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Oct-87 05:36:56 EDT References: <542@louie.udel.EDU> Distribution: comp Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL Lines: 52 in article <542@louie.udel.EDU>, rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) says: > > In article <2599@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >>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. > > It is a nice idea, and i appreciate that criag is under a lot of > stress from the work, but it won't work... The delays are only part of the problem. I don't know if the problems I see are the result of having a moderated newsgroup or if they stem from some other problem. For whatever reason, I seldom see any Amiga source that isn't posted to comp.sys.amiga. Perhaps there is another approach which would work better. Instead of posting source to comp.sys.amiga because the response from comp.sources.amiga isn't fast enough, how about posting an abstract of the program to comp.sys.amiga and posting the source to comp.sources.amiga. In the abstract mention the source was sent to comp.sources.amiga. Also offer to mail source upon request. Then, after waiting a week or two, count the requests for source by mail. If there are more than ten, post to comp.sys.amiga. Otherwise just mail the source to those who requested it. That would avoid increasing the traffic on comp.sys.amiga unnecessarily. If, as some people claim, there really isn't a problem with comp.sources.amiga, there will be no need to mail source or post it to comp.sys.amiga. If the problem is limited to just a few sites the mail option will take care of it. But if comp.sources.amiga really isn't working the source will still get distributed. An added benefit of that approach is the archives at comp.sources.amiga will be complete, since source will still be posted there. That seems to be pretty close to what people are doing anyway. Only sometimes folks post to comp.sys.amiga immediately. I did it myself with my shell archive programs, but next time I'll try the approach I suggested here. --Fabbian Dufoe 350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South St. Petersburg, Florida 33705 813-823-2350 UUCP: ...gatech!codas!usfvax2!jc3b21!fgd3