Date   : Thu, 19 Nov 1987 15:22:00 MST
From   : Keith Petersen <W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
Subject: Posting Binaries

If the posting of binaries starts on Info-Cpm I will shut off the
Usenet and CsNet gateways from this mailing list.  There are other
ways of distributing binaries other than a mailing list.

I am the one who must wade through all the mailer rejections that are
caused by mailing list recipients exceeding their alloted disk space
and by angry system administrators who have deliberate message size
limits because they have to PAY for every byte that they receive.

The Info-Cpm mailing list handler presently has a limit of about 50k.
If binary postings start I will ask the system administrator to reduce
it to 10k.  I don't have the time to read all the rejections.

Instead of talking about posting binaries perhaps a discussion should
be started about a file server for CsNet and Usenet.  There are a
number of hosts that are on both the Arpanet and one of those two
nets.

--Keith Petersen <Info-Cpm-Request@SIMTEL20.ARPA>