root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) (03/21/88)
In article <3903@cup.portal.com> Thyss@cup.portal.com writes: >will someone please re send dmgbbs? i see it look's pretty nice and i'm in >the lookout for a bbs program, so if the person that put it up in the first >place could re-upload it, i'd be grateful. thanks, >-- >Thyss@cup.portal.com Let me see if I understand the content of this posting correctly. Thyss wants the original poster to go through the trouble of re-posting the multi-part package s/he just recently posted. Thyss further would like all that binary code to circulate through out the world and reside in duplicate on all the machines on the net. Could this be Thyss's intent? Wouldn't it have been more courteous to have posted an email message directly to the author of DMGBBS and made arrangements to obtain a copy directly from the author or an archive site? If Thyss had done that, we wouldn't have had to read his impertinent request, and s/he wouldn't have embarrassed him/herself by suggesting that every site on the net contain two copies of the multi-hundred-kilobyte binary posting. Perhaps sysadmins of public-access sites should educate their users in the proper use of Usenet before granting them the ability to post articles? Larry Dighera -- USPS: The Consultants' Exchange, PO Box 12100, Santa Ana, CA 92712 TELE: (714) 842-6348: BBS (N81); (714) 842-5851: Xenix guest account (E71) UUCP: conexch Any ACU 2400 17148425851 ogin:-""-ogin:-""-ogin: nuucp UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucivax!icnvax!conexch!root || ...!trwrb!ucla-an!conexch!root
mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow) (03/22/88)
In article <221@conexch.UUCP>, root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes: > In article <3903@cup.portal.com> Thyss@cup.portal.com writes: > Thyss wants the original poster to go through the trouble of > re-posting the multi-part package s/he just recently posted. Thyss > > Perhaps sysadmins of public-access sites should educate their users in > the proper use of Usenet before granting them the ability to post > articles? > > Larry Dighera I agree in principle. I'm tired of seeing repostings and requests for repostings of large, programs. But I would hope that "netiquette" rather than rules would control repostings. If you missed a biggie, and don't know who posted it, ask whoever to contact you E-Mail. Then you can arrange for E-mail of, or direct USnail (via SASE) of your program. USnail may be slow, but it often beats files having to withstand the ravages of pasting together, en- & de- coding, arc- and unarc- ing. Michael Volow, M.D. Dept of Psychiatry, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 27705 919 286 0411 mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP