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Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past

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From: Dean Brooks
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:44
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rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz) writes:

>People on the net have written an amazingly large number of useful packages,
>yet for comp.sources.reviewed:
>    The ratio of administrative articles to sources postings is amazingly high.
>    The number of programs posted per month is amazingly low.
>    The total number of distinct* packages posted is amazingly low.
>    The percentage of submissions that do not get resubmitted is too high.
>    The number of initial submissions is amazingly low.

>I believe the group is about as useless as c.s.unix was at its worst.

Comp.sources.reviewed, in its current state, is worthless.

It's funny how the PC world (and their corresponding comp.binaries.* groups)
is able to maintain one of the *best* newsgroups on the net, *without*
a reviewing process.  Yet, the UNIX world can't even get software
posted with *TWO* distribution groups (c.s.u and c.s.r) on their own
original UNIX based network.

Sigh...  It's an endless argument... (-8

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<><> Dean Brooks                             Internet:   dean@coplex.com
<><> System Administrator / Postmaster       CompuServe: 70672,2405
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From: dean@coplex.com (Dean Brooks)
Subject: Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past
Organization: Copper Electronics, Inc.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:44:32 GMT
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