Date   : Fri, 20 Nov 1987 17:44:28 GMT
From   : ptsfa!well!bandy@ames.arpa (Andrew Scott Beals)
Subject: Posting binaries

Well, I don't know if they would let us poor old 8-bit people get
away with a newsgroup.

However, the cheapest method of distribution is still good old U.S.
Mail.  

For example, I have a "centipede" program that I wrote one weekend
years ago for my Osborne.  I've been thinking about cleaning it up
and giving it away to people, but how many folks could use it?

It seems that we shall always get the short end of the stick, so
I'd suggest that we rely on SIG/M and our local BBS sysops for
the bulk of PD programs.

I think that it should be okay to post source on the net, but binaries
are a little unwieldly.

Keith, I know that one can get UUCP for TOPS-20 systems, how about
you set up a few dialin ports and let people who want access set up
uucp accounts and turn on the server for them?  That way they pay
the shipping costs off-site and *everyone* gets access to the
SIMTEL20 archives again.

       andy
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Andrew Scott Beals
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