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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: How does a RUSH category sound?
Message-ID: <7090@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 4 May 89 01:47:30 GMT
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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How does a RUSH category sound for comp.binaries.ibm.pc?  If an
incoming submission is marked RUSH in the subject heading,

  -- it gets posted in 24 to 48 hours
  -- it is not tested, nor assigned a volume/issue number
  -- no moderator's comments are added
  -- if time permits I check to make sure it will extract, but
     if 48 hours delay is approaching I skip this step too
  -- the keywords field includes "rush"

The only purpose of moderation for such postings would be to keep
discussion out of comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  (Experience suggests this
alone is of great benefit.)

Those who archive postings can skip archiving "rush" postings if they
so prefer.

We could try this for a while and see how much the signal/noise ratio
suffers.

Comments?
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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