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From: danno@microsoft.UUCP (Daniel A. Norton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why are there so many REPOSTS?
Summary: Sites deliberately dropping articles?
Message-ID: <1822@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 14:42:17 GMT
References: <4699@whuts.UUCP>
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
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In article <4699@whuts.UUCP>, chl@whuts.UUCP (LANG) writes:
> 
>    It seems to me that there have been alot of files getting posted
>    to comp.binaries.ibm.pc that have already been posted...

That's funny; it seems to me that half of the postings are getting
dropped.  This is especially wasteful, since 8 parts of a 14 part
posting are worthless, especially since they are all required to
make a single ARC file.

I don't even know what "Omega" is, but I do know that about a
quarter of a megabyte will reach here.  I wonder how many sites
this useless quarter of a megabyte passes through, especially
since it is worthless.

Was the introduction to this also dropped.  Part 1 just jumped right
into uuencoded stuff w/o an introduction.

I would like to make a few suggestions to our moderator:

1) Introduce a posting before the posting or in the first part.
Better yet, introduce it in c.b.i.p.d since it might get dropped
from c.b.i.p (at least I'll know what I'm missing so I can look
for it, if I want).

2) Don't require me to coalesce 14 articles before being able to
look at the posting.  I doubt that I could feed these parts into
de-ARC even to extract a README.  Instead, limit the pieces to
2 or three articles per part.  At least I'll have a chance of
getting something, perhaps a README, some documentation, or, if
I'm very very lucky, and executable.

>    Hasn't anyone else noticed that there have been alot of REPOSTS
>    which are not being called reposts.

Don't I wish! :-)  But seriously, if this is going on, I can
hardly blame those sites who may be dropping articles deliberately
because such reposts aren't cheap, and there sure aren't getting here
(I know, it's a vicious circle).
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