Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!cg-atla!fredex From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: New msdos uploads to SIMTEL20 Message-ID: <8211@cg-atla.UUCP> Date: 29 Dec 89 18:33:51 GMT References: <10083@microsoft.UUCP> <11838@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division Lines: 38 In article <11838@smoke.BRL.MIL> w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (Keith Petersen) writes: >In article <10083@microsoft.UUCP> fredf@microsoft.UUCP (Fred FREELAND) writes: >>I vote we change the name of this newsgroup to comp.binaries.simtel.upload.d >>since that is clearly the most common thing to talk about. You sure can't >>talk about something that isn't there, and comp.binaries.ibm.pc sure isn't. > >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. > >Keith Keith: I am not offended by the simtel20 postings--In fact, I find them helpful to keep myself up to date on what is there. In that way I can have a feel for what files are available without needing to frequently peruse a new simibm.lst, waiding through the thousands of files I have seen before. Now, we all agreed a few weeks ago that Rahul was doing a great job and didn[t want to have untested stuff coming through. I don't disagree with that. However, I think the gist of the original posting was to the effect that since there seems to be (virtually) nothing coming thru on c.b.i.p. currently that we DO NOT KNOW if it is dead, if Rahul got run over by a truck, if there is nothing in his queue, etc., etc., etc. I think it would be great if Rahul could take a moment to post an occasional ntoe in this newsgroup about his status--does he have 500 things in testing which we will see in a while once he is satisfied with them, or is the queue empty and he would welcome more submissions, or whatever the status really is. Fred Smith fredex@cg-atla.agfa.com