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In article <1147@runx.ips.oz> clubmac@runx.OZ (Macintosh Users Group - Sydney, Australia) writes:
>In article <2531@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> saunders@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (kevin eric saunders) writes:
>>>[Demo Version of Design v2.0 - part 5 of 10]
>>   What the **** is this incredibly long binary doing in comp.sys.mac?  
>>Binaries should be submitted to the moderator of comp.binaries.mac.  
>What is WORSE is the proliferation of postings that are more than 3 parts,
>as well as the use of comp.binaries.mac as a cheap way of distributing demo
>versions of software, updates to commercial software, and Apple Technotes.
>1.....talk about design demo posting on more than one place and
the usefulness of such a posting in general.
The Design demo posting should have ( at least ) been posted in
only ONE place..
>
>2) I personally appreciate the postings of updates to Lightspeed C & Pascal,
>   but I wonder just how many subscribers to comp.binaries.mac use them;
I think this posting(s) was great and quite useful to a number of
us.
>
>3) There is an EXCELLENT source of Apple Technical Notes called APDA (or
>   AAPDA in Australia). For the last few months, I have received the Technotes
>
I think that Technical NOtes are still appropriate in a comp
newsgroup - not everyone has access to the other sources...
4) Postings such as NetHack are too big (and expensive) as a single posting
>
I'm not fond of posting things like nethack in general. Hard to
justify the costs - especially if I were in Australia.
>Wouldn't most readers of comp.sys.mac prefer to see more of the SMALLER
>and more useful postings (as described in the INFO-MAC digests) rather
>than these HUGE postings, which are specialist? 
I like access to both - however I would hope that folk would
avoid postings that cause some of the problems that you have
mentioned. Certainly the 386 vs 020 chip wars with HUGE
cross-postings and the PC versus Amiga vs Atari vs Mac postings
were pretty much a HUGE volume waste of time. Personally I think
anything that is cross-posted extensively is VERY suspect - since
the follow-up volume will probably be much greater than it should
be for the same subject posted to it's proper group(s).

In general I agree with you, but I don't want to be quite as
restrictive as I think you do. I am quite fond of comp.sys.mac
and read it very regularly. I consider it valuable EXCEPT when
the signal-to-noise get's too high. Enough said ( probably TOO
much ).



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