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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,news.admin,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: some (should-be) ground-rules for submissions to comp.binaries.*
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Date: 30 May 88 05:23:37 GMT
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In article <5145@dcatla.UUCP> 	Larry Kollar writes:
>To reduce the amount of binaries on the net,

	What ever for? ...

> ... and to enhance the usefulness of
>what's posted, I propose the following scoring system:
>
>	All submissions have a base score of 0.
>
>	Sources accompany submission:  +10

	... You seem to consider Sources intrinsically more valuable than
Binaries.  While I'm sure you have reasons, some true and good,  it can't
hold true for many situations.  For one thing, this subject has been thrashed
about many times in many news-groups and yet binarie news-groups still exist.

	The fact remains that sources are (usually) larger than binaries --
no savings here.

	Not everybody has the apropriate compiler/interpreter/assembler.
Some people may have them but may not know enough to make everything work.  A
good example is if the user doesn't own the right brand compiler.  This
sometimes includes me.  Do you know what that you would be saying to me?
"Tough shit."

>... programs with sources are
>much more useful, so we should encourage these submissions.

	I do agree that sources  c a n  be more useful ... (hold this thought)

>... Big shareware or
>commercial demos would most likely never get posted, due to things jumping
>ahead of them in line.

	There's smoething slippery about this idea.  An unpredictable delay
of a posting could deminish its usefulness.  This could also cause a
sufficietly delayed posting prove virtually useless and therefore a
detriment -- but not dependent on the posting's own merit.  There's no good
in that.

>... The Mac and Amiga are hard enough to learn to program;

	... And some people don't program at all.  (Remember that thought)
Should we ignore non-programmers?

>...
>These, of course, are rough guidelines; since moderators are intelligent
>humans, they can modify scores to their own tastes or for special
>considerations ...

	I think it we would best leave it the hands of intelligent humans
than to a non-thinking scoring scheme -- we're not playing Bridge.

Flip side,

	joe piazza

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