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From: ljdickey@water.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Binarys+source
Message-ID: <1236@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 09:55:21 EST
Article-I.D.: water.1236
Posted: Thu Nov  5 09:55:21 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 15:50:48 EST
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Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <508@aucs.UUCP> 870646c@aucs.UUCP (comer) writes:
>Hi all, it's me again, I am just wondering one thing "Why are the binary and
>source news groups so dead?". There seems to be no activity at all on these
>news groups. Can anyone enlighten me as to the reason, I for one would 
>like to see more of these great "Public Domain Programs" posted. I tried
>to post some stuff the other day, and it just disappeared.

I think it is time to relax rules for posting.  A number of
people recently have written, expressing concern about the
lack of postings.  This group used to be one of the most
active, and had  *lots*  of software.

Now, only occasional things get posted.  The time that we introduced
a "moderator" for the two groups

	comp.binaries.atari.st
	comp.sources.atari.st

seems to be the time of the big slow-down in postings.

I propose that the "moderator" restriction be removed from these
two groups, and that people be allowed to post directly to them.

There can still be a role for a moderator.  After a program
is posted, if the moderator wishes to post a note of endorsement
or condemnation, he/she may do so.

Those who choose to be conservative in trying out new
program may wait for the praise or censure and then may
follow this advise.

I am not happy with the current state of affairs.

-- 
 L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. 
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