richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (09/07/88)
In article <5470@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David Ashley) writes: >In theory, comp.binaries.amiga should work as follows: > >People post to it. >Moderators eventually check into postings, uploading good files >Everyone gets the files and is happy. > >So there should be a semi-fixed delay between posting and seeing it appear >in the newsgroup. And there should be a steady flow of postings, which were >posted to the moderators N days ago and have passed their tests. > >This is NOT happening. I have posted stuff, and I am sure other people have >posted things. They might as well have been sent to /dev/null. > >The situation now is, we never see postings due to slow/stopped moderation. >This effectively makes comp.binaries.amiga worthless, as people realize what >a waste it is to post to it. They will post to the other two instead, >comp.sys.amiga and comp.sys.amiga.tech. > >Since I have just received a posting on comp.binaries.amiga, I know it is >still working at Berkeley, that is, we are receiving files from that >newsgroup. > >Anyway, I am wondering if anyone is getting more articles than we are. >Perhaps this is just a problem of articles getting filtered out before they >get to us. > >Regardless, I think the best solution is to unmoderate the binaries and >sources. There may be some opposition to this from TPTB; most other micro source/binary groups are moderated and comp.sys.amiga bing one of the highest volume groups on thr NET may give admins a bad feeling about this. But, if it's possible to do it, do it. If not, make an alt group: alt.amiga.programs for both source and binary, unmoderated, of course. -- ``Beam THAT between your pointy ears'' richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard