mat@emcard.UUCP (W Mat Waites) (07/25/90)
Could someone please send me a uuencoded ZOO program, or point me as to where to get it? I don't have FTP access by the way. Also, I only got parts 1 and 2 of the recent unix utilities post. Should have been 15 or 16 parts, right? Please mail me the rest if possible. Thanks, Mat -- W Mat Waites | Unlike most of you, I am not a nut. {gatech,emory}!emcard!mat | -H. Simpson
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (07/26/90)
In article <8111@emcard.UUCP> mat@emcard.UUCP (W Mat Waites) writes: | Also, I only got parts 1 and 2 of the recent unix utilities post. | Should have been 15 or 16 parts, right? | Please mail me the rest if possible. Suggestion on asking for things: 1. don't ask for mail of 16 parts of a program. Ten people will send them and you will waste bandwidth. 2. don't assume that you link is instant, and the moment I post something it shows up in your news. Wait a few days before asking for stuff, since delays happen. 3. one of the functions of a moderator is to control the volume. To do this I post a few parts every day, rather than blow away my comm links by trying for a record. 4. The per-day volume is high right now to catch up with the backlog while I was out. Since I see that it's coming in faster than I can post, I'm going to cut back in a week or so. 5. This group takes time in relation to the number of programs (not size), and I'm getting a lot of small stuff. I'm going to cut back to 8 hours a week to prepare stuff, and what I get done is all that goes out. Reviewing takes time, if I get stuff in a reasonable format with a good description I can do a lot more. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) (07/26/90)
In article <1363@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: =In article <8111@emcard.UUCP> mat@emcard.UUCP (W Mat Waites) writes: = =| Also, I only got parts 1 and 2 of the recent unix utilities post. =| Should have been 15 or 16 parts, right? =| Please mail me the rest if possible. = = Suggestion on asking for things: = = 1. don't ask for mail of 16 parts of a program. Ten people will = send them and you will waste bandwidth. The better way to handle having missed one or more parts of a multi-part posting is to post a message asking for people who _did_ get all of a multipart post, and are willing to mail you your missing pieces, to send you mail; from the email you get you can pick one person to actually send you the pieces. The other people get "Thank you, but I have already found a source for my missing pieces" reply. | "The three most dangerous Sean Malloy | things in the world are a Navy Personnel Research & Development Center | programmer with a soldering San Diego, CA 92152-6800 | iron, a hardware type with a malloy@nprdc.navy.mil | program patch, and a user | with an idea."