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Reboot programs & the FAQ (What one little binary posting can do)

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From: George Jetson
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 13:34
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In article <BtxGK6.Dyu@NCoast.ORG> brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown) writes:
>
>In this case, however, both you and Tony missed what IMHO is the most
>important point: the original article omitted quite important facts
>which are in the FAQ.  Disregarding those facts, as the article did, can
>lead to a loss of data on one's hard disk.  The question of whether
>binary should have been posted is nugatory, since the subject was more
>fully covered by the FAQ list.

I think that that (the propagation of incorrect solutions) is part and
parcel of the ban on binary postings.  I.e., the real concern of
unbridled binary postings is that some of the things posted are
dangerous.

So the two ideas are related...

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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:34:51 GMT
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