Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Why are there so many REPOSTS? Message-ID: <3830@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 1 Sep 88 06:05:58 GMT References: <4699@whuts.UUCP> <1822@microsoft.UUCP> <4720@whuts.UUCP> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 21 In article <4720@whuts.UUCP> chl@whuts.UUCP (LANG) writes: >I saying that the files being posted have already >been posted along (up to several 6 months ago) time ago and >all the initial "I missed it complaints" have passed. >I don't want to see games or utilities of the same version >number over and over again. The newsgroup comp.binaries.ibm.pc has been through rough times. It was initially moderated. Then it change to unmoderated, but remained aliased to comp.sys.ibm.pc at some sites, so many postings that were supposed to be in comp.binaries.ibm.pc got moved at random sites to comp.sys.ibm.pc, resulting in much confusion. And while it was unmoderated, there was so much non-binary discussion in it that it was difficult to keep track of what was posted in it. The result of all this is that your moderator (me) has no reliable records of what has been posted already in comp.binaries.ibm.pc, and if something was posted, whether it was widely propagated. I'm forced to start from scratch. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi