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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Filtering the source/binaries without bottleneck
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Date: 10 Jan 89 19:52:43 GMT
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In <66717UH2@PSUVM>, UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
> There is a more moderate position possible.  Part of the moderators
> function is to smooth out the delivery of incoming material.  If
> something really important comes in, it should be posted right away.

Agreed. And if their is something not so important, there is no rush to post
it. If there is something not important at all, why bother posting it? The big
question is: "Are animations important enough to justify their bandwidth?"

>If there doesn't happen to be anything very interesting in the queue (say
>Matt Dillon takes the afternoon off 9-), then why not send out
>an animation?

Ahh...  something like a NOP in a time dependent program, or sync bytes in a
synchronous data link? Something to let us know that the moderator is still
alive and well and thinking about us and hasn't crashed? Perhaps to keep us all
practiced up? Unsharing, uudecoding, and unZooing are awfully easy to forget.
And then of course we must be careful to keep the net.bandwidth high during
those times when nothing useful is being propogated.

What if there are no animations in the queue? Well, he said, that's easy. Bob
can just send out DMCS scores, or DPaint pics, or essays written with
WordPerfect. Why I bet there are some really neat mortgages out there in
Analyze files we could all look over. How about it people? Would you all like
some directory listings I made with DirMaster?

>Personally, I trust Bob Page to judge which things need to be rushed out,
>and which can wait a few days of weeks (or years).

Personally, I resent the cost, both to the end users and to the backbone sites,
of propogating animations, especially just as 'filler'.

Yes, I think we can trust him to do the right thing.

-larry

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