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Re: Bad placing of Atari ST binaries

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From: Dale L. Thomas
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1988 16:34
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> In article <347@coma.UUCP>, axel@coma (Axel Mahler) writes:
> >                               I see three possible solutions to the
> > current dilemma:
> > 
> > 	1. Find someone reliable with enough time and suitable resources, 
> > 	   and make that person the new moderator of comp.{src,bin}.st.
> > 	2. Make both newsgroups unmoderated or,
> > 	3. rm-group both groups and return to the way programs have been
> > 	   distributed before - through comp.sys.atari.st.
> > 
> > Currently breaking its way is 'solution' no. 3. I hate the idea.
> > I'd be very much in favor of no. 1, but - in case nobody volunteers -
> > would prefer no. 2 over what's going on now.
> > 
> > I'd like to hear about other ideas, or how you folks out there feel
> > about the current situation, and my suggestions.
> 
> I vote for 2.  3 is bad because you have to wade your way through too much stuff
> just to find programs; also, there is no separation of sources and binaries.  1
> is bad because it doesn't work.  Why burden one guy with so much work?  Why rely
> on one guy's time (and machine) to get PD programs through to everyone?
> 
> 2 is great.  I can just picture all that code coming through... No more bottlenecks.

I too would like to go with #2, for the same reasons above. Lets see some code!!
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From: dale@slovax.UUCP (Dale L. Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Bad placing of Atari ST binaries
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Date: 24 Feb 88 16:34:59 GMT
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