Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!amdahl!dwl10 From: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Mr. Moderator, please post zoo Message-ID:Date: 15 Aug 88 14:38:25 GMT References: <222@pigs.UUCP> <6031@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey) Distribution: na Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX Lines: 44 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: >In article <6031@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> larryg@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Larry Gilbert) writes: > > Joe Bob Willie writes, > > there are archive sites which already contain these things, please > > find a local archive. there is no need to continiously repost zoo > > every month or so. > > I agree. But there are those of us who can't ftp archives. > >Why not? jacobs.cs.orst.edu is on the internet, why can't you ftp? And, >it sounds like you don't want to bother calling the c.b.i.p archives directly. >It so happens that I don't have zoo in the archives, but I'm trying to find >out what the latest version is. (Rahul, if you're reading this, send me >mail--my mail to you gets forwarded to /dev/null). > > Does anyone have an idea for a compromise? Maybe post stuff like that every > THREE months? >Nope. If you want it, go fetch it from the archive. The only reason to >repost anything *ever* is when nearly everyone's copy got trashed. > >-- >nelson@clutx.bitnet, nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu, uunet!clutx.clarkson.edu!nelson IF ZOO or whatever is voted the "standard", I believe it should be posted at least ONCE! It seems to me that there has been more wasted "net bytes" telling people to "get it from the archives" then there would have been if ZOO had been posted! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- "This isn't Heaven, this is Cleveland!!!!" Dave Lowrey Amdahl Corp. Houston, Texas (713)-850-8828 ...!{ames,sun,decwrl,uunet,....}!amdahl!dwl10 [ The opinions expressed be those of the author and not necessarily those of his most eminent employer. ]