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From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:VirusX 1.6
Message-ID: <2312.AA2312@heimat>
Date: 27 Aug 88 00:33:59 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <3817@louie.udel.EDU>, iphwk%MTSUNIX1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Bill Kinnersley) writes:

>Dan, I spent a year receiving comp.sys.amiga long distance at $10/hour,
>so I understand your desire to minimize the cost.  It's clear that the
>people on Usenet represent a wide range of interests and expertise, and
>the percentage of postings that any one person finds interesting may run
>low.  But still the reasons we're here and not off on some BBS are the
>same: (a) timeliness and (b) efficiency.

  My desire is not so much to minimize cost (since I do receive all 5 of
  the Amiga groups) as much as is it is to see the binaries and sources
  return to there proper groups. Its seems that the posting of binaries
  and sources in the message groups have started to become the rule rather
  than the exception.

>Naturally, long sources and binaries belong elsewhere, but I hope that
>short relevant programs are still acceptable here.
>I would not want to see a guideline that would exclude postings like the
>"Undelete" program that came from you last month.  That was almost 300
>lines of uuencode, but if it hadn't been posted here, many people including
>myself would still not have access to it.

  I would like to see an unofficial guide as to the length of files posted
  to a message group. After all UUCP & UseNet survives on a set of guidelines
  that are unofficial and I think we could do the same.

  As for the UnDelete program, I will admit that in the past ive been known
  to post some long files. Thanx for pointing this out to me and I will try
  to refrain from doing this in the future. I will continue to post however
  they will be in the proper newsgroup(s).

>Bill Kinnersley

  PS:
     Did you like UnDelete?


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