john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) (02/25/88)
In article <23660@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes: > >If the bottleneck is in moderation, why not just make comp.binaries.atari.st >unmoderated and post binaries there? There are advantages to moderation. You don't get 50 people who all have a new version of <spiffy 100K program> all posting it at once; with propagation delays you might post 7 or 8 days after someone else does without seeing their posting. Also if you know your program will not be posted for several days after you send it, it gives you the chance to add in new features, fix bugs and send off the newer version _before_ the net gets cluttered with the first one. And since the moderator is supposed to test things before passing them on, you are assured that at least one person has successfully unarced / uudecoded a binary before it's put into general distribution. Ever download > 200K and find out that it didn't work because someone's mailer garbled line 1000 of the uuencoded file? I have, I'd rather have things like this happen to a moderator :-) . John -- "Fanaticism is all right... as long as you're ALONE! HAHAHAHA!" -- Pat Robertson shares a gem of wisdom told to him by Richard Nixon, and thus becomes the first politician to whom I can honestly apply the term "scares the willies out of me"