pnv@homxa.UUCP (P.VERMA) (10/21/85)
>As moderator of mod.sources, I must say that I have not seen any such >posting, and am not holding up distribution. > >If I intend to hold up any distribution for any reason, I send my reasons >to the original author. Otherwise, I normally will not hold postings >up for more than a day or two - even if I have to do it at midnight. >The usual reason for a delay is that sources are queued up - I try not to >flood the net with too many articles at once. > Is this another way os aying that the articles are not posted immediately, and are (pardon the term) held up? >John P. Nelson, Moderator, mod.sources >(decvax!genrad!panda!jpn seismo!harvard!wjh12!panda!jpn)
jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) (10/25/85)
In article <1146@homxa.UUCP> pnv@homxa.UUCP (P.VERMA) writes: >Is this another way os aying that the articles are not posted immediately, >and are (pardon the term) held up? The reason for having 'mod' newsgroups is to let someone check the unimpeded flow of drivel into a newsgroup. He has to hold it up as long as he (or she, chris) needs to, to read the incoming traffic and let only reasonable messages on the net at a reasonable rate. -- Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}