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From: svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (William Svirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why are there so many REPOSTS?
Message-ID: <3095@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 26 Aug 88 15:55:39 GMT
References: <4699@whuts.UUCP>
Reply-To: svirsky@tab.tti.com (William Svirsky)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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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.   I can
+   understand reposting of ZOO200 and LOOZ210 (and other archivers
+   every so often), but this is the second time I have seen MORIA483
+   OMEGA, and a bunch of others.   Sometimes you think it it is a new
+   version and do all of the work to get from UNIX to your PC only
+   to find it is a duplicate.
+
+   Hasn't anyone else noticed that there have been alot of REPOSTS
+   which are not being called reposts.

I think what we are seeing is that the UNIX source is getting posted to
a source news group and then we are seeing the source and/or binary of
the MSDOS port of the UNIX source getting posted to the ibm.pc groups. 
I know for a fact the the UNIX source for OMEGA was posted just recently.

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