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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Moderation: good, bad, or what...
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 21:42:40 GMT
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- I was bored today, and went browzing through the IBM groups. Look at
- what I found.
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- It appears that there are more submissions to the IMB binaries group
- than I had thought. But the tale is below...
-
- While this seems unlikely to happen to the apple2 group -today- if
- it becomes moderated, it becomes a possibility for the future.
-
- There are still 2 more weeks to vote for comp.binaries.apple2
- moderation (as I recall).
-
- Give it careful consideration. It seems almost impossible to unseat
- a moderator once enthroned. If they die without notice, or get a life
- or something, but do not want to give the responsibility to someone
- who is willing and able, the group is SOL, and dead.
-
-
- Rich
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- >Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
- >Subject: Re: cbip posting question
- >Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell)
- >Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
- >Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 02:55:08 GMT
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- >In article <1992Aug6.192437.17946@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> mholtz@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark A. Holtz) writes:
- >>I submitted a file to cbip for processing. What is the normal
- >>sequence of handling this, since I haven't heard squack from the
- >>moderator about this? Is the receipt of the file acknowledged, at
- >>least?
- >>
-
- >Yes, your posting was received. Unfortunately, due to the sheer number of
- >submissions, I have been unable to reply to each one. I am already at around
- >80 submissions in the backlog...my recent request for testers has resulted
- >in only a couple people giving me feedback, so nothing is getting through.
- >Plus the fact I can only sort through a few submissions a day, _when I can_,
- >things are getting further piled up, not to mention that someone submitted a
- >rediculous number of files, several of which were corrupt, and yesterday
- >someone actually miled me a _binary_ file - no, not a uuencoded binary, and
- >actual binary, which needless to say didn't arrive intact, nor did my mailer
- >enjoy it...
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- >All that, coupled with the fact that the PC at work died a while back and
- >prevents my in-house testers from getting anything, and the University is
- >still using 2400 baud modems is making for slow progress this summer.
-
- >I would like to ask for a moratorium on submissions until the backlog
- >dwindles. And please, don't bother asking when something will appear. I
- >simply do not know...
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- >=======================================================================
- >Brian O'Neill - Systems Manager, Computer Science (508) 934-3645
- >University of Massachusetts at Lowell
- >Internet: oneill@ulowell.edu Moderator, comp.binaries.ibm.pc
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