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From: dc@gcm (Dave Caswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.groups
Subject: Re: arbitron program (v2.4.2--last updated 4 June 1987)
Message-ID: <358@white.gcm>
Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 04:39:20 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 11 04:39:20 1987
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In article <74@bacchus.DEC.COM> reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes:
-
-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.
-
-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.

It is equally ridiculous to post something automatically every month that is
archived in thousands of sites all over the world.