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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tetris
Message-ID: <71@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 89 20:16:21 GMT
References: <254300029@trsvax>
Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.
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In article <254300029@trsvax> johnm@trsvax.UUCP writes:
>Try submitting it through comp.binaries.amiga first.  I believe that it will
>automatically end up on the fish disks then (200 or so people will correct me
>if I'm wrong :-).

This is generally true, however there are drawbacks:

	1.	I may never see the posting.  Usenet is not perfect
		and sometimes drops stuff on the floor.  If it is a
		large multipart posting, and one part gets lost, I
		probably won't expend much effort trying to find
		a source for the missing part.

	2.	There may be considerable delay between the time it
		is sent to comp.binaries.amiga and the time I see
		it, due to several factors.  As an example, I am
		just now today (18-Mar) getting sources and binaries
		that were posted in late Feb, since estinc was off
		the net for about three weeks and it has take about
		a week to catch up.  This means that material that
		could have made it onto one of the 16 disks released
		in the last couple of months may not be included for
		at least another several weeks.

	3.	Given two equally interesting things and a limited
		amount of time or disk space, priority is given to
		the material submitted to me directly by the author
		on disk.  This eliminates all questions in my mind
		about whether or not the author minds/wants/doen't-care
		about having the material included.  There were lots
		of interesting things posted in the last few months
		to the binaries and sources group that I had to
		reject due to ambiguity or outright restrictions in
		in the copyright or distribution clauses.

-Fred
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