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From: bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's wrong with comp.binaries.mac ?
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Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 17:02:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 17:02:28 1987
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In article <516@garth.UUCP> fenwick@garth.UUCP (Stephen Fenwick) writes:
>What's going on with comp.binaries.mac? My site has been receiving 
>one file per day for the last couple of weeks--we are currently up to
>part 6 of Byron Han's NetHack distribution.  Rich Siegel's LSP patch
>has yet to show up (this is what I'm bugged about).

In article <821@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks) writes:
>We've had the same trouble.  We know there are a lot of postable things
>out there, including lots of hypercard stackware that is deluging
>Genie (for one).  Perhaps we need an unmoderated posting group, since
>reviewing all the software is probably too much for one moderator.
>Any ideas?

Well, as moderator of comp.binaries.mac, let me reassure you that I am
indeed alive, as is the group.  The reason you are getting one posting
a day (though that does vary), is exactly why the group is moderated:
there is only so much bandwidth, and the postings are spread out over
time to limit the bandwidth that this group takes.  If you ever look
at the statistics that get posted to news.lists, you will find that
comp.binaries.mac is quite a high volume group.  If this volume ever
gets to a level that a majority of the backbone thinks is "too high",
you might find that they discontinue forwarding the group.  Lest you
think this is unlikely, be aware that the possibility of cutting all
comp.binaries groups has already been discussed in news.groups.

As for the LSP patch, it's next in line after the posting of NetHack
concludes with tonight's posting of part 12.  It will be posted in
seven parts over the next several days.  I would have posted the LSP
patch earlier, but had trouble getting it from THINK;  I finally got it
about a week ago after calling Jon Hueras at THINK and giving him a
different EMail address.

You can also expect to see some hypercard stack sometime in the near
future.
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	Roger L. Long
	FileNet Corp
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