Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a563
From: a563@mindlink.UUCP (Dave Kirsch)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Withdrawal symptoms...
Message-ID: <1071@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 90 12:14:53 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> jmerrill writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <4225@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
> Posted: 7 Feb 90 21:26:55 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
> Person: Jason Merrill
> 
> In article <4880a153.144c9@byzantine.UUCP> fraserr@byzantine.UUCP (Ross
> Fraser) writes:
> >Also, without a moderator, there would be a greater risk of spreading
> viruses
> >across the network. Let's wait and see if the Powers That Be can resolve
> this
> >thing be for creating a nightmare.
> 
> About the same risk as getting a virus from SIMTEL; I really doubt Keith has
> the time to check everything that gets uploaded.

No way.  A news group such as c.b.i.p can spread virus like wildfire.  I'm in
Vancouver and have no access to FTP and my mail to SIMTEL goes into the phatom
zone (no bounce, nothing, just vapourizes).  So I rely on c.b.i.p. for alot of
the good new PD/Shareware that's out.  And I've found the R. Deshi did a great
job at checking out the stuff.

You see, SIMTEL is only accessable by so many people, and the files aren't hand
delivered to you like c.b.i.p.  You have to go FTP them, where with c.b.i.p,
you just log on and read the new messages, and they are there ready to use
(after a quick uudecode).

A virus on a program on SIMTEL would take, I'd say, at least a month to spread
very far.  On c.b.i.p, it would take 2 or 3 DAYS.

I'm totally against an UN-moderated group.  I just shudder at that thought.

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