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From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Anybody home in comp.sources.mac?
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Date: 11 May 88 18:30:50 GMT
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In article <5250@cup.portal.com> Ilan@cup.portal.com writes:
>I second Gail's motion to UNMODERATE comp.sources.mac. The group as it
>currently stands is a poor excuse for a group.  If the moderation is
>the problem we should find out about it as soon a possible.  If on the
>otherhand its a low rate of posting then possibly the group should be
>eliminated altogether.  As it stands now the group sits there pretty
>much unused.

   I think there are two reasons for this. First, when people include source
 they often packit together with the binary, so the entire thing gets posted
 as a binary. Occasionally, someone like me, sends the moderator two files, one
of the binary versions and one of the source version.
 The Second reason, is that the net.gods probably expect xxx.sources groups
to be in ascii text, not Binhex. Binhexed sources probably end up on binaries
while shared sources end up on sources.
  Pierce Wetter
   I third the motion to unmoderate.

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