Date   : Tue, 13 Feb 1990 10:06:00 MST
From   : Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: binary/source postings

Chad, please don't encourage people to post binaries or I'll have
to request that the Usenet<->Internet gateway be turned off for
comp.os.cpm<->Info-Cpm.

I am the Info-Cpm mailing list maintainer and I am the one who gets
all the complaints from Internet users when their disk qoutas are
exceeded or they have to pay extra fees for large files they don't
want to receive.  This does not work like Usenet where the news goes
into the spool directory and is not counted against anyone's quota.

What makes a "discussion group"?  The Usenet guidelines say any
newsgroup should be treated as a discussion group unless it has
"binaries" or "sources" as a part of its group name.  The same
guidelines state that it's a no-no to post binaries or sources to
groups other than those so designated.

We have a tremendous resource in the SIMTEL20 archives.  Rather than
trying to start a binary newsgroup, I hope you will try to find out
how to use the file server and help other non-Internet users to do the
same.

Keith
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