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From: frotz@drivax.UUCP (Frotz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A moderator for Binaries
Message-ID: <3251@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 02:28:55 GMT
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Keywords: A vote for Rahul--win one for Dhesi

In article <23699@clyde.ATT.COM> feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) writes:
>I vote for Rahul for moderator of BINARIES.  A moderator is 
>badly needed and Rahul would make a great contribution as well
>as bring some discipline to postings.

Ok, email to your vote to bill davidsen (I think), as this one doesn't count.

>ZOO is a fine idea, but unfortunately it is not a widespread
>standard.  I understand that SEA's ARC has been ported to Unix and
>PK's ARC can turn off "squashing", so why not use ARC?  After all,
>except to look at the documentation, the code is not useful on most
>Unix systems.  Futhermore, there are probably many people on this net
>who don't even operate under Unix. 

It is not nice to force a directory structure upon *ARC.  In fact, it
is a real pain (try archiving of each subdirectory into its parent and
then including that archive along with the rest of the files in the
parent directory in an archive).  In the ZOO on the other hand allows
a (novice) command syntax that is really quite close to *ARCs, but the
(expert) command syntax is much more complete.  There are several
operating systems that currently support ZOO: DOS, VMS, *nix, FlexOS,
AmigaDos, ConcurrentDOS are the ones that I know about. 

>Besides, the moderator should include in the posting a description
>of the program, what it is used for, and any special requirements
>(EGA, VGA, MS windows, utility to 123, etc.) With this information we
>can decide whether to download. 

Let me interpret what I think you mean here.  You mean that the
moderator should *REQUIRE* postings to contain a short description of
the program and any special hardware/software requirements it may
have, so that the moderator may slightly (if at all) modify the
description, add his own blurb and headers and post to the net.  I
agree whole-heartedly.  It is the main responsibility of posters to
supply this information; not the moderators.

Frotz
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