chl@whuts.UUCP (LANG) (08/24/88)
It seems to me that there have been alot of files getting posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc that have already been posted. I can understand reposting of ZOO200 and LOOZ210 (and other archivers every so often), but this is the second time I have seen MORIA483 OMEGA, and a bunch of others. Sometimes you think it it is a new version and do all of the work to get from UNIX to your PC only to find it is a duplicate. Hasn't anyone else noticed that there have been alot of REPOSTS which are not being called reposts. Charlie Lang whuts!chl
danno@microsoft.UUCP (Daniel A. Norton) (08/26/88)
In article <4699@whuts.UUCP>, chl@whuts.UUCP (LANG) writes: > > It seems to me that there have been alot of files getting posted > to comp.binaries.ibm.pc that have already been posted... That's funny; it seems to me that half of the postings are getting dropped. This is especially wasteful, since 8 parts of a 14 part posting are worthless, especially since they are all required to make a single ARC file. I don't even know what "Omega" is, but I do know that about a quarter of a megabyte will reach here. I wonder how many sites this useless quarter of a megabyte passes through, especially since it is worthless. Was the introduction to this also dropped. Part 1 just jumped right into uuencoded stuff w/o an introduction. I would like to make a few suggestions to our moderator: 1) Introduce a posting before the posting or in the first part. Better yet, introduce it in c.b.i.p.d since it might get dropped from c.b.i.p (at least I'll know what I'm missing so I can look for it, if I want). 2) Don't require me to coalesce 14 articles before being able to look at the posting. I doubt that I could feed these parts into de-ARC even to extract a README. Instead, limit the pieces to 2 or three articles per part. At least I'll have a chance of getting something, perhaps a README, some documentation, or, if I'm very very lucky, and executable. > Hasn't anyone else noticed that there have been alot of REPOSTS > which are not being called reposts. Don't I wish! :-) But seriously, if this is going on, I can hardly blame those sites who may be dropping articles deliberately because such reposts aren't cheap, and there sure aren't getting here (I know, it's a vicious circle). -- Any opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's. nortond@microsof.beaver.washington.EDU nortond%microsof@uw-beaver.ARPA {decvax,decwrl,sco,sun,trsvax,uunet,uw-beaver}!microsof!nortond
svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (William Svirsky) (08/26/88)
In article <4699@whuts.UUCP> chl@whuts.UUCP (LANG) writes:
+ It seems to me that there have been alot of files getting posted
+ to comp.binaries.ibm.pc that have already been posted. I can
+ understand reposting of ZOO200 and LOOZ210 (and other archivers
+ every so often), but this is the second time I have seen MORIA483
+ OMEGA, and a bunch of others. Sometimes you think it it is a new
+ version and do all of the work to get from UNIX to your PC only
+ to find it is a duplicate.
+
+ Hasn't anyone else noticed that there have been alot of REPOSTS
+ which are not being called reposts.
I think what we are seeing is that the UNIX source is getting posted to
a source news group and then we are seeing the source and/or binary of
the MSDOS port of the UNIX source getting posted to the ibm.pc groups.
I know for a fact the the UNIX source for OMEGA was posted just recently.
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svirsky@ttidca.tti.com | ...!{csun,psivax,rdlvax,retix}!ttidca!svirskychl@whuts.UUCP (LANG) (09/01/88)
Some people are missing the point of my first complaint about reposts in binaries.ibm. I'm complaing about reposting when alot of people are complaining the they have missed particular pieces. I saying that the files being posted have already been posted along (up to several 6 months ago) time ago and all the initial "I missed it complaints" have passed. I don't want to see games or utilities of the same version number over and over again. As I said before, the exceptions are ARCHIVER's and UUen/decode stuff that new comers need to have posted every so often. LET'S STOP WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME AND MONEY WITH ""UN-NECESSARY"" REPOSTS. Charlie Lang whuts!chl
dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) (09/01/88)
In article <4720@whuts.UUCP> chl@whuts.UUCP (LANG) writes: >I saying that the files being posted have already >been posted along (up to several 6 months ago) time ago and >all the initial "I missed it complaints" have passed. >I don't want to see games or utilities of the same version >number over and over again. The newsgroup comp.binaries.ibm.pc has been through rough times. It was initially moderated. Then it change to unmoderated, but remained aliased to comp.sys.ibm.pc at some sites, so many postings that were supposed to be in comp.binaries.ibm.pc got moved at random sites to comp.sys.ibm.pc, resulting in much confusion. And while it was unmoderated, there was so much non-binary discussion in it that it was difficult to keep track of what was posted in it. The result of all this is that your moderator (me) has no reliable records of what has been posted already in comp.binaries.ibm.pc, and if something was posted, whether it was widely propagated. I'm forced to start from scratch. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi