Date   : Sun, 11 Feb 1990 22:31:16 GMT
From   : swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!anasaz!chad@ucsd.edu (Chad R. Larson)
Subject: binary/source postings

In article <KPETERSEN.12565398949.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
(Keith Petersen) writes:
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| Chad, binary/source postings are inappropriate for any discussion
| group, but especially for those gatewayed to mailing lists on the
| Internet side.
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I guess, in my imprecise way, that was what I was asking...Is this
newsgroup an appropriate forum for source and/or binary postings?
What makes this a "discussion group"?

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| There is an excellent public domain archive at SIMTEL20 which is
| accessable by all readers of this newsgroup.  
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I'm sure it is very easy to get some things off SIMTEL20 if you are an
Internet participant and can use FTP.  I'm not.  I have tried to use the
gateway server at North Dakota(?) on three or four occasions, following
the proceedures posted and never gotten anything back (not even a "F.O."
message).  I gave it up as unworkable, due to whatever reason (broken
mailers, bad paths, terminal stupidity on my part).

Anyway, having to pull indexes (if you ever figure out how), examine the
one line descriptions to try to guess if you might want the <whatever>,
then pulling <whatever> to examine it in its fullness just isn't quite
the same as reading the news, scanning the posted source as it sails by
your face and typing "s" to rn when you see something you like/want/need
(like I can do in all the other sources newsgroups).

[An aside to Keith--let's make e-mail contact.  Maybe you can teach me
how to work the gateway.]

So, I'll renew my query.  Are source and/or binary postings a no no in
this group (beginning to sound like it)?  If so, I'll start the formal
discussion and voting procedure to establish a group exclusively for
program postings.  This group can serve as the discussion group for the
postings in addition to its current charter and Keith will have another
place to glom programs for his archive.  If the formal vote fails for
lack of interest, I'll pipe down.

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| Keith
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  -crl
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