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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!apple!netcomsv!mork!payner
- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Comp.binaries.apple2 moderation: why not?
- Message-ID: <qcgmbyl.payner@netcom.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 04:39:52 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.131149.2441@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <n2fmp7c.payner@netcom.com> <6986@lib.tmc.edu>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Lines: 45
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- In article <6986@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >In article <n2fmp7c.payner@netcom.com> payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >>Because the cost of the solution could be very great. Moderation has
- >>made the ms-dos binaries group an absolute joke.
- >
- >Which MS-DOS binaries group are you looking at? The one I'm watching has
- >plenty of stuff in it.
-
- Comp.binaries.ibm.pc, since I last checked it several months ago there
- have been 34 new posts. Comparing the volume of the comp.binaries.apple2
- group with the comp.binaries.imb.pc group, I would assume that the IBM was
- a dead ot dying machine while the apple2 was doing well.
-
- And they cannot even decide on a standard compressor. Everyone seems to want
- zip, except the moderator(s?), who want zoo. It is really amusing reading the
- .d group. If the apple2 binaries were moderated, we would probably still be
- using executioner format.
-
- > I find the moderation to be a seriously Good Thing, and
- >can't understand why you're so avidly seeking the group you'll get without
- >moderation: full of non-binaries, and those that are there are barely tested
- >and quite possibly full of viruses.
-
- We -have- a perfectly servicable binaries group -without- moderation. There
- has been no virus problem, and a new virus would not be caught anyway. The
- non-binaries posts are just a minor annoyance.
-
- And there have no strong arguments for -changing- something that works quite
- well.
-
- > You need look no farther than alt.sources
- >to bear the former out, and what better distribution channel than Usenet for a
- >brand new virus?
-
- Vote as you wish, I vote no. There has not been one single strong reason for
- the change. Some say that the little things add up to something we need, but
- I do not see it, and many others do not as well.
-
- >--
- >Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
-
-
- Rich
-
- payner@netcom.com
-