Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Filtering the source/binaries without bottleneck
Message-ID: <10428@gryphon.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 89 19:15:08 GMT
References: <34235@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <34235@bbn.COM> denbeste@BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste) writes:
>
>Our two recent experiences with moderators have each had good sides and bad
>sides.
>
>Bob Page is doing a great job in expediting postings to the group, but recently
>he posted some things in excess of 2 megabytes to the binaries groups
>which were useless to the vast majority of readers of the group. People have
>begun clamoring for a pre-filter.
>

Yes, and lets look at the overall net.picture.  Last year somebody
posted a 770K PSPICE demo to the net, and there was a major outrage
over in news.* that went on for quite a while, got a lot of people
really annoyed, and all sorts of unresonable suggestions,many of which
were pysically impossible.

Fortnately however, when the RGB demo slid through, the denizens of
news.* were bickering over atheist women in SIGPLAN, and it seems
to have gone completely unnoticed. Phew.

Soooo, as much as we'd all like to see huge aniumations appear
every day, we're just gonna have to accept the fact that this
will not be; at least in this incarnation of USENET.

And second, Bob Page has been exemplory in his moderation of
the source and binary groups. The self imposed moratorium on
big animations, although an unpopular decision, was a good
move.

And as for testing, vs. delays, I think I for one would
rather have then stuff NOW, with minimal testing, rather
than wait 3 months for the next file to burp up. And after
all, if it's not well tested and has bugs, one of you 
people will generally have reported that fact long before
*I* find it out :-)


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