Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!amdahl!kim From: kim@uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Bob is on vacation - Was: Re: Three big warnings .. Message-ID: Date: 9 Jan 89 23:42:19 GMT References: <2838@cbnews.ATT.COM> <40ababfa.87ad@apollo.COM> <3225@sugar.uu.net> Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 57 In article <3225@sugar.uu.net>, peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article <40ababfa.87ad@apollo.COM>, rimbold@apollo.COM (Robert Rimbold) writes: > > I think that it's too much to expect [Bob Page] to test every submission and > > > [ ... ] > > No, I don't think it's too much. When I was running alt.sources.amiga I would > at least make sure that I could compile the program, and if I had the > facilities I'd test them. I even Manxified a couple of Lattice programs > to do this. I screwed up once, with the PCFormat3.5 stuff, because I didn't > have any 3.5 disks to check. I'll go with Robert on this one ... I think the moderator's "job" is to: 1 - post submissions to the net in a *timely* fashion 2 - insure all the parts are contained therein 3 - screen out duplicate submissions 4 - reject "inappropriate" material (what is "inappropriate" is pretty subjective, aside from submissions that might have been pirated) 5 - feed the submissions to the net at a rate that does not cause undo problems for most sites on the net (like overflowing the news spool area, etc.) That's it! I do agree that it'd be real nice if Bob could test out all submissions, but *NOT* at the expense of item 1!!! It's just too time consuming, not to mention the fact that Bob *does* have other things to do with his time. You *do* remember the kind of turnaround that we got from Purdue, don't you [and "alt" never did take-off due to the limited distribution that all the alt.groups get ... as I recall, only about 20 postings were ever made there ... Bob's made that many in a week!] I personally feel that Bob has been doing an EXCELLENT job with all the points I mentioned above (though I too would put large animations, iff's etc. in the "inappropriate" category), and would encourage him not to change his procedures, except perhaps on one point ... And that is ... *IF* large animations, etc. are going to continue to be posted, then yes, *they* should be "tested" (just see if it comes up ... nothing extensive). Personally though, I think there are better uses of the available bandwidth ... /kim -- UUCP: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,uunet,oliveb,ames}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 BIX: kdevaughn GEnie: K.DEVAUGHN CIS: 76535,25