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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Filtering the source/binaries without bottleneck
Summary: Words of wisdom Lloyd, WORDS OF WISDOM.
Message-ID: <10481@gryphon.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 89 05:21:36 GMT
References: <2113@van-bc.UUCP> <4225@charon.unm.edu>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <4225@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.unm.edu.UUCP (Hans Bechtel) writes:
>
>I have an idea...

Uh oh. Hans has an idea.

>After the files are downloaded from the src/bin section, have whoever that
>downloads one post a message to the net that it is ok about every 2 weeks
>of use.  Of course, the person doing so should read the many messages to
>make sure that nobody else has yet posted a message.  This way everybody
>can help the group.

Sheer genius. Now, backwater sites that are 2 days from a backbone
connection will ALL post: ``xxxyyy is safe'' because they havn't
seen the post yet, because of the dreaded SLOW NEWS FEED.


>(Will somebody from Commodore-Amiga please contact me?  Thanks...
>I have a few questions to ask.
>Please write..
>
>Hans Bechtel
>12353 Mountain NE #G
>Albuquerque, NM  87112 )

Yes, please help Hans. His phone doesnt work, he can't afford
a stamp, and he can't spell ``cbmvax''.


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