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Subject: Re: Re: Posting uuencoded binaries to ne - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 22:17:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 22:17:00 1984
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/***** ea:net.news / dmsd!bass / 12:22 pm  Aug 12, 1984 */
I for one suggest that net.sources REMAIN net.sources and NOT degrade into
net.binaries for every micro system under the sun ... we already have
net.micro.* for JUST THAT!

Most folks archive net.sources because it generally has things that can be
modified for what every system ... few archive net.micro.* because of ...

Please lets post sources if you want to share something ... maybe more
than a small minority will be able to use the result or your hard labor.

John Bass
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The problem with posting sources, etc. to net.micro.* is that most of
those newsgroups are gatewayed to the arpanet, where they have a different
(and much better, I might add) method of distributing things. The reason
this creates a problem is that on the ARPANet, those things wind up in
peoples mailboxes (meaning more than one copy per system, etc). How would
you like it if the binaries wound up in your mailbox?

As for your second point, I archive net.micro.*, because we use micros,
and will probably add more (like a couple Masscomp box) in the future.
Turns out that the best net source of information on such creatures is
net.micro.68k and the like.

This has been suggested before, and it seemed like a good idea at the
time: let's create a separate subgroup for micro sources/objects/etc,
called (probably) net.micro.sources. That way, you can ignore it along
with the rest of the micro groups, if you so desire, and you won't be
stepping on the toes of the people who want that info, or the ARPANauts
who are on info-micro.