Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ukma!rutgers!att!whuts!homxb!antique!cjp
From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Filtering the source/binaries without bottleneck
Message-ID: <2495@antique.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 19:33:17 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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References: <34235@bbn.COM> <10831@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: vax135!cjp (Charles Poirier)

In article <10831@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>Frankly, I don't care if the sources/binaries are pre-tested or not.
>All I really care is that the group be moderated to keep the S/N level
>at zero. I'd rather have faster article propagation.

I'm undecided about the pretesting issue, but let me point out for the
sake of completeness, that posted binaries that plain don't work have
an S/N of 0.000.  I downloaded over 2 megabytes of that animation noise
for example.

By the way, I vote NO on posting images and animations, even in a
separate subgroup.  Though I am a big fan of Amiga images, I feel they
have much less utility per byte than sources, binaries, or general
discussion.  Plus, I feel that the sheer volume of images and animations
we would see would inevitably cause problems.  Though it is true that
individual Usenet sites can refuse to carry individual groups, I fear
that many sites don't administer Usenet with a sufficiently fine touch
but will instead take out their wrath on the whole Amiga subtree or on
Usenet in general.

Some kind of direct-distribution scheme should be used for images.

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	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ucbvax,mcnc,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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