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Article #1009

Re: Stop Wasting Bandwidth On Binaries

#1009
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1989 15:02
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In article <5845@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> tholen@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (David Tholen) writes:
> Incidentally, the "bandwidth" used is the same whether the destination is
> comp.os.os2 or comp.binaries.os2.  The only difference is whether you see
> them in comp.os.os2 or not.  If you'd rather not see them, just skip them
> when scanning new postings.

Not to this site, or many another site with a UUNET feed. We get comp.os.os2,
but we don't get general binaries groups and wouldn't get comp.binaries.os2.
In fact, if binaries start being a problem, we won't get comp.os.os2 either.

The only binary group we get is comp.binaries.ibm.pc, because of certain daft
decisions made by the likes of IBM and Microsoft nearly 10 years ago. One hopes
that they don't do the same again...
-- 
`-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.uu.net>.
 'U`  Also <peter@ficc.lonestar.org> or <peter@sugar.lonestar.org>.
"It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier
and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com
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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Stop Wasting Bandwidth On Binaries
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Date: 31 Dec 89 15:02:03 GMT
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