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From: abcscagz@csuna.csun.edu (Jeff Boeing)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: concurrent diskette formatting program
Message-ID: <1736@csuna.csun.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 89 05:16:21 GMT
References: <5946@bsu-cs.UUCP> <7965@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <6055@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>
Reply-To: abcscagz@csuna.csun.edu (Jeff Boeing)
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In article <6055@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> hartung@amos.UUCP (Jeff Hartung) writes:
>Hey!  Why are there people posting binaries to this group?  That's what
>the moderated group comp.binaries.ibm.pc is for.  This group is for
>discussion only!  Anyone thinking of posting a binary please do so to
>c.b.i.p, not here.

Now, this is something I have very mixed feelings about.

Moderating comp.binaries.ibm.pc seemed like a good idea at first: it would
cut out any non-binaries traffic and make sure that someone (Rahul Desi, in
this case) would screen the binaries to make sure they were postworthy.
   There are two inherent problems with limiting all IBM binaries postings
to the moderated group only:
(1) Delay time.  One lousy disk crash -- which was certainly not Rahul's
    fault -- caused the entire backlog of binaries to be set back several
    weeks.  Rahul hasn't gotten half way through the binaries he's intended
    to post yet.  And even if this disaster hadn't happened, I'm sure that
    old R.D. is probably flooded with far more binaries postings than he
    can preview.
(2) Moderator preference.  Some time ago, Rahul was on vacation and gave the
    moderation of c.b.i.p to someone else.  This person decided, for some
    bizarre reason, to limit c.b.i.p postings to utilities ONLY.  Sure, we
    all love PC utilities, but wouldn't it be nice to get PC NetHack once
    in a while?

The moderated newsgroup is still a good idea, but I ask you, fellow netters,
should binaries postings be restricted to the moderated group ONLY?  An
unmoderated forum (such as this one) seems to me like a good place to vent
those binaries that didn't make it (or are delayed up the wazoo) to c.b.i.p.

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Jeff Boeing:  ...!csun.edu!csuna!abcscagz    (formerly tracer@stb.UUCP)
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