Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!xanth!kent
From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Where is comp.binaries.amiga
Message-ID: <4954@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 88 13:25:06 GMT
References: <898@artecon.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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"where are the binaries and sources groups?":

The moderators announced that they were going to stop posting until
they could isolate and somehow fix the system/software that was
delivering their postings truncated to a large minority of the net.
Apparently they haven't succeeded yet.

"why is everybody still mailing stuff to them?":

Since the moderators were doing a great job until this problem
surfaced, most folks have been kind enough to spare the discussion
groups source or binary postings (except for a few folks on permanent
ego trips who feel like the rest of the net just can't survive another
moment without seeing the poster's name on another piece of code).

Also, posted to the discussion groups, the sources or binaries don't
end up in the archives like the ones mailed to the moderators, which
is another reason to send the stuff to the moderators by preference.

"when will they be back?":

It would be a kindness if the moderators would post a status report
every other day or so, so we'd know their site hasn't been nuked or
something, though. ;-) It's not like that would be a noticeable ripple
in addition to the present traffic in this group.

Kent, the man from xanth.