Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: New msdos uploads to SIMTEL20 Message-ID: <352@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 29 Dec 89 16:07:41 GMT References: <10083@microsoft.UUCP> <11838@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 22 In article <11838@smoke.BRL.MIL> w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (Keith Petersen) writes: | The SIMTEL20 upload postings have been an effort to try to fill in the | gaps when there were no postings in cbibmpc. They were never intended to | "compete" with cbibmpc. When that newsgroup becomes active again I will | discontinue the SIMTEL20 upload announcements. I'm sorry if they | offended anyone. I certainly hope that you will NOT discontinue them, although perhaps they could be digested and posted weekly, if that's not a big hassle. There are two large advantages to this: they give people with ftp access a chance to get things without uudecodeing, or to get missing parts, and they also give people without ftp access a chance to see what's there and ask if selected items could be posted to c.b.i.p in the future. As I see it everybody gains, and the actual volume of traffic is absolutely minimal. -- bill davidsen - sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX davidsen@sixhub.uucp ...!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen "Getting old is bad, but it beats the hell out of the alternative" -anon