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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.groups
Subject: Re: arbitron program (v2.4.2--last updated 4 June 1987)
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Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 02:39:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 02:39:27 1987
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In article <44103@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
>Yet one has to wonder: If alt.sources is "proof" of the need/demand for
>unmoderated sources, why does one feel obligated to post to a group
>specifically created for discussion only?
>
>Is this an admission that alt.sources is inadequate? (Or maybe inappropriate?)
>You would think it would at least be cross posted...

Hey, guys, woof woof. This is not posted by me, it is posted by crontab using
a shell script I wrote back before alt.sources existed. So I forgot to update
it to include alt.sources. I still intend to crosspost to comp.sources.d just
because alt.sources doesn't go everywhere and it is to everyone's benefit for
as many sites as possible to run the arbitron script.

But I'm delighted to see the discussion. Sure, some people are annoyed, but
everything annoys *somebody*. My goal is to get as many people as possible to
install and run the script, and any technique that works to draw attention to
it is fine with me.

Also it's ridiculous to have sources that are posted automatically every
month be sent to a moderator, and it is equally ridiculous to have sources
that are posted automatically every month be in a newsgroup that is archived
in thousands of sites all over the world.