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From: jimmy@pyramid.pyramid.com (Jimmy Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: we need an unmoderated binaries group
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Date: 3 May 89 23:22:56 GMT
References: <1944@csuna.csun.edu> <7788@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM>
Reply-To: jimmy@pyramid.pyramid.com (Jimmy Aitken)
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In article <7788@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> rbq@iforgetmyname.UUCP (Robert Quattlebaum) writes:
>In article <1944@csuna.csun.edu> abcscagz@csuna.csun.edu (Jeff Boeing) writes:
>>
>>Back in the good old days before c.b.i.p became moderated, anyone who wanted
>>to share his binaries with the usenet world was free to.
>
>[Arguments for unmoderated PC binaries group deleted]
>
>I agree (for better or worse). I too would like a constant flow of as-is
>stuff with which to play. It would also be nice to post without filtering
>and the associated delay.

I remember when I started reading net sources and a substatial number
of posting to this newsgroup was "Where can I get... " or "I missed
part ..." or "Please send me money (:-)".  Mod sources was where I
regularly read and kept source postings and the S/N ratio was
high. comp.binaries.ibm.pc also suffered from this sort of thing
before it became moderated. Now I know if there's something in c.b.i.p,
then it'll be something (potentailly) of interest and not another
request for a repost.  "That's what c.b.i.p.d is for," you may reply.
Indeed that's what it is for, but how many people would use it as such
if they could post directly to c.b.i.p directly.

Alt.sources started up as anyone can post source to it without
moderation, and yet I still see articles of the form outlined above.
In our spool area there are 11 alt.sources articles, two of which can
be considered as source and possible one more (it's only 10 lines).
C.b.i.p hasn't been as regular as it could have been recently, but at
least there have been no mispostings here.  Personally I would much
prefer to see this than wrong cross postings.  If nothing else it make
archiving much easier.  If anyone has a summary of the original
discussion about c.b.i.p, then posting it would probably save a lot of
bandwidth.

jimmy
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