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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: THE MODERATOR IS 'IN'
Message-ID: <662@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 03:02:48 GMT
References: <10569@cgl.ucsf.EDU> <945@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> <1289@laidbak.UUCP> <8303@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <1742@bsu-cs.UUCP> <8350@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <8350@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
<In article <1742@bsu-cs.UUCP> jtn3@bsu-cs.UUCP (Jim Nelson) writes:
<| That message was posted to (pay attention, kids, you're about to learn
<| something) "COMP.BINARIES.IBM.PC".  I even checked to make sure he hadn't
<| cross posted to here.
<
<That's not correct. At this site the message was in comp.sys.ibm.pc. It
<started with something like "this group will soon be moderated" followed
<by a set of ground rules.
<........
<Again, the message was worded "... keep discussion out of this group and
<send it to comp.sys.ibm.pc." There would have been no confusion if (a)
<the message was no cross posted, and (b) the group name was used instead
<of "this group."

Bill, as far as _I_ can tell the msg was _not_ cross-posted. When I saw it
in comp.sys.ibm.pc, I _specificly_ checked the header to see if the msg was
cross-posted. It was not. 

What appears to have happened is that the new moderator posted _two_seperate_
messages. One to comp.binaries.ibm.pc and one to comp.sys.ibm.pc. 

Would someone at a site where the originals haven't expired please check the
message numbers _from_the_originating_system_? Then we can settle this once 
and for all.


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