Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!w8sdz From: w8sdz@brl-smoke.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: MODERATED GROUP (soon) ... Message-ID: <6903@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 27 Dec 87 22:05:37 GMT References: <375@spl1.UUCP> <5290@iuvax.UUCP> <6902@brl-smoke.ARPA> <482@gethen.UUCP> Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR|towson) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 15 One of the *most* frustrating things about Usenet is the frequent errors in newsgroup postings. I can't understand why no one has addressed that problem. I see large numbers of notes about truncated postings. It's very likely that the very thing that saves money, the use of "compress" to handle net news, is the cause of this problem. I REPEAT: THERE IS NO ERROR CHECKING IN COMPRESS/UNCOMPRESS. It is very likely that the re-postings required because of truncation nullify most of the savings! -- Keith Petersen Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA Uucp: {bellcore,decwrl,harvard,lll-crg,ucbvax,uw-beaver}!simtel20.arpa!w8sdz GEnie: W8SDZ