chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala) (01/09/85)
Richard brings up a good point FOR mod.sources.mac, indirectly: >Comparing fa.info-mac and net.micro.mac in this case isn't really relevant. >fa.info-mac is deliberately moderated to keep the traffic down to mainly >things of interest to people who want to develop programs on their Macs. In >particular, many of the recent net.micro.mac messages about "please post >binhex" would have been suppressed on fa.info-mac. net.micro.mac's charter >is much wider. One of the reasons to have a moderator would be so that we have a person in charge of making sure that binhex and the like gets to the new people in a coordinated fashion, that these people can get older sources, and to generally keep net.micro.mac from bogging down into continually rehashed garbage and repetitive sources request. With a single person who has taken on the responsibility of answering these requests the rest of the users can stop worrying about whether to answer it. If we went as far as mod.micro.mac (or whatever) normal users would never see the silly things (hurrah!) and the group could be used for useful things like learning how to program these silly machines (Excuse me, I need to get mine to let go of my fingers.... Back later...) chuq -- From the ministry of silly talks: Chuq Von Rospach {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA Now look here Mister "I'm not just a word processor"...