870646c@aucs.UUCP (comer) (11/05/87)
Hi all, it's me again, I am just wondering one thing "Why are the binary and source news groups so dead?". There seems to be no activity at all on these news groups. Can anyone enlighten me as to the reason, I for one would like to see more of these great "Public Domain Programs" posted. I tried to post some stuff the other day, and it just disappeared. later Barry
ljdickey@water.UUCP (11/05/87)
In article <508@aucs.UUCP> 870646c@aucs.UUCP (comer) writes: >Hi all, it's me again, I am just wondering one thing "Why are the binary and >source news groups so dead?". There seems to be no activity at all on these >news groups. Can anyone enlighten me as to the reason, I for one would >like to see more of these great "Public Domain Programs" posted. I tried >to post some stuff the other day, and it just disappeared. I think it is time to relax rules for posting. A number of people recently have written, expressing concern about the lack of postings. This group used to be one of the most active, and had *lots* of software. Now, only occasional things get posted. The time that we introduced a "moderator" for the two groups comp.binaries.atari.st comp.sources.atari.st seems to be the time of the big slow-down in postings. I propose that the "moderator" restriction be removed from these two groups, and that people be allowed to post directly to them. There can still be a role for a moderator. After a program is posted, if the moderator wishes to post a note of endorsement or condemnation, he/she may do so. Those who choose to be conservative in trying out new program may wait for the praise or censure and then may follow this advise. I am not happy with the current state of affairs. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@watmath.UUCP UUCP: ...!uunet!watmath!ljdickey ljdickey%water@waterloo.edu ljdickey@watdcs.BITNET ljdickey%water%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.ARPA
rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander) (11/06/87)
In article <508@aucs.UUCP>, 870646c@aucs.UUCP (comer) writes: > Hi all, it's me again, I am just wondering one thing "Why are the binary and > source news groups so dead?". I wonder too. In fact, I sent some stuff to turner@daisy earlier this week; IF I don't either 1) see it go out, OR 2) get mail from Mr. Turner that it was received and is pending (or that he doesn't think it suitable - that's OK by me, I'm not an egomaniac about my code) OR 3) see something from Mr. Turner in this group, THEN I'm gonna post it myself & d*mn the torpedoes. Does this sentiment strike a chord out there? -- Ross Alexander, Athabasca University alberta!auvax!rwa
turner@daisy.UUCP (D'arc Angel) (11/10/87)
> > In article <508@aucs.UUCP>, 870646c@aucs.UUCP (comer) writes: >> Hi all, it's me again, I am just wondering one thing "Why are the binary and >> source news groups so dead?". > > I wonder too. In fact, I sent some stuff to turner@daisy earlier this week; > IF I don't either 1) see it go out, OR 2) get mail from Mr. Turner that it > was received and is pending (or that he doesn't think it suitable - that's > OK by me, I'm not an egomaniac about my code) OR 3) see something from Mr. > Turner in this group, THEN I'm gonna post it myself & d*mn the torpedoes. > > Does this sentiment strike a chord out there? > > -- > Ross Alexander, > Athabasca University > > alberta!auvax!rwa a) I haven't seen anything from you, are you sure you sent it to the right address ???? b) this ain't fun, if the concensus of opinion is that the moderated newsgroups are a bottleneck then tell me and i will dissolve them. this is not sour grapes nor a grandstand play, but if the feeling of the net is that this is not a service, then say so. bleeding dumb 50% rule &*^$*&^%(*&^ -- C'est la vie, C'est la guerre, C'est la pomme de terre ...{decwrl|ucbvax}!imagen!atari!daisy!turner (James M. Turner) Daisy Systems, 700 E. Middlefield Rd, P.O. Box 7006, Mountain View CA 94039-7006. (415)960-0123
weaver@tut.UUCP (11/12/87)
Jim:
Pluuuuuease do not discontinue the groups. I get your postings fine
and I appreciate your testing of the software. You won't hear any complaints
from this poor college student who appreciates the free software that floats
along here!
Cheers,
--
Andrew Weaver, The Ohio State University College of Business
UUCP: ...!cbosgd!cis.ohio-state.edu!weaver | "This ain'ta my planet,
ARPA: weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu | monkey-boy!"
| - Emilio Lizardoaeusesma@csun.UUCP (steve acheson) (11/18/87)
Followup-To: [What does a line eater look like? How do they reproduce? :-)] In article <1496@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Weaver) writes: >Jim: > Pluuuuuease do not discontinue the groups. I get your postings fine >and I appreciate your testing of the software. You won't hear any complaints >from this poor college student who appreciates the free software that floats >along here! >Andrew Weaver, The Ohio State University College of Business Jim: allow me to second this motion, I think you are doing a great job and ask you to please continue. I appreciate getting the tested software arced and encoded ready to use. Please keep up the good work. Now for something completely different. I am going on a far flung excursion to the land of wonder, the land down under, with suntanned beauties lying... ?? oh excuse me, I just slipped a little. To much late night TV, studying for finals, I guess. I wanted to ask if anybody down that way would have a spare ST I could get my hands on from time to time, to prevent withdrawal from taking another helpless computer junkie. (P.S. Any Uni's down there have space on their UNIX machines for someont to keep in correspondance with the uni back here? :-) This has been another example of what can happen to your children, given vitamin C at an early age. steve acheson Steve Acheson, Cal State Univ, Northridge Computer Center uucp: {sdcrdcf, ihnp4, hplabs, ttidca, psivax, csustan}!csun!aeusesma
greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks) (11/19/87)
Please - lets not have anarchy on the source and binary groups. The
headers that D'arc Angel puts in make automatic archiving simple and
painless. Plucking stuff out of archive directories is much simpler
than plucking stuff out of news: "cp * dst" versus repeat{s file<CR><space>}.
That's my CDN$0.02 worth anyway (worth US$0.01 :-)).
--
Greg Franks XIOS Systems Corporation, 1600 Carling Avenue,
(613) 725-5411 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z 8R8
utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!greg "There's so much to sea in Nova Scotia"