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From: lowey@dvinci!herald.usask.ca.UUCP (Kevin &,,4826,6535185)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION of comp.binaries.os2
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Date: 13 Jan 90 21:49:40 GMT
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I would also like a COMP.BINARIES.OS2 and COMP.SOURCES.OS2.  The
reason is because we are soon going to connect the FIDONET OS/2
newsgroup to the uucp OS/2 newsgroup and make one large newsgroup out
of the two of them.  Fidonet however does not like uuencoded binary
files (because most people on it pay to transfer the stuff with their
own money, instead of relying on the generosity of their company #8-)

I have a fix in that we can configure the maximum size of a message
forwarded between the two systems.  Right now it's 16K which will
filter out all uuencoded binary messages > 16K.  However, we will
still get tail ends of multi-segment uuencoded files, etc.  A separate
binaries group would solve this problem.

I also would like a moderated binaries group.  The current procedure has
the following problems:

  1) We get multiple postings of the same program (Like MicroEMACS) from
     different people.

  2) There is no consistant way for archiving the files.  Some use PKZIP,
     some use ZOO, some have headers and footers on the messages so we can
     use a script to combine the pieces together, others randomly split 
     the uuencoded file with no headers.

 I suggest that we have a moderator to solve these problems.
COMP.BINARIES.IBM.PC comes to mind as a good example.  Raul had some
problems with the shear volume of stuff he had to go through, but the 
actual postings themselves were always done quite well, allowing me to 
use a script to unpack the messages in a consitant manner, etc.

- Kevin Lowey @ 1:140/43 - LOWEY@SASK.USASK.CA - ...!alberta!dvinci!lowey