Date   : Sat, 10 Feb 1990 08:54:03 GMT
From   : zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!anasaz!chad@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Chad R. Larson)
Subject: binary/source postings

A couple of years ago, I posted to this group the source to a utility
I wrote.  I was beaten up rather roughly for having done so.  My
recollection is that this group was gatewayed onto the Internet
somehow and that someone there had a restriction on source and/or
binaries floating by.  They threatened (or were required, I forget) to
break the gateway rather than allow programs to transit their systems.

Is this still so?  Are binaries or source postings discouraged (or
worse, punished)?  Is this group constrained to be discussions of old
systems and mutual help in supporting them?

Please let me know.  I've got a couple of other (semi)nifty programs I
have written that I'm willing to place in the public domain.  They are
CP/M specific, so I can see no reason to clutter up some other source
newsgroup with them, but I'd post them here.  If that is not a good
idea (for political or other reasons beyond our control), I'd like to
start the formal voting procedure to establish a group for source
and/or binaries postings that are for CP/M and MP/M systems.

We, like the MS-DOS people, have the luxury of binary compatability
across most of our systems.  I'll bet there is a ton of useful goodies
we have all written that we should be able to share.  How 'bout it?
I'll show you mine, if you'll show me yours....
       -crl
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