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From: burleigh@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (frank burleigh)
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Subject: Submission for comp-binaries-ibm-pc
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Date: 4 May 89 01:32:56 GMT
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From: burleigh@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (frank burleigh)
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Subject: Re: we need an unmoderated binaries group
Summary: keep c.b.i.p moderated
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Date: 3 May 89 08:24:14 GMT
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In article <6345@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> hartung@amos.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) 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.
[ ... ]
>>again, I am led to understand that the posting of the long-awaited PC
>>NetHack version 2.3 will be delayed due to problems at Rahul's end.
>
>
>Now, as to an unmoderated newsgroup, there are some problems.
>	(4) Et cetera.
>
>The unmoderated c.b.i.p. was about to be closed down due to the above
>difficulties.  It exists now only because it is moderated.

In addition to the problems of viruses, "junk," copywrited material,
etc., it seems to me that an unmoderated group leaves little incentive
for people to use the moderated group.  People would probably feel safer
with moderated-group postings, but the easiest route for posters would
be to throw it to the unmoderated group.

Part of the motivation for reopening these question seems to revolve
around the posting of a game.  Why is the speed with which games are
attained sufficient concern to reopen the moderation issue?  Maybe I
don't understand because I haven't played this game...:-)

Please, let's not go over all this again.  The few down times are not
that significant, and we can certainly live without binaries for a few
days.  Good stuff gets posted here, but life will go on during delays.
I for one do not want to go back to that (unmoderated) chaos.

[Jeff Hartung's text suggests one of the uses of moderation: had the
group not been moderated, the game would have been posted, cancelled,
posted, cancelled, and posted again.  One way or the other, resources of
both time and system have been saved by moderation, which is as it
should be.]

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