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From: greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,alt.sources.d,comp.sources.d
Subject: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????.
Message-ID: <777@hades.ausonics.oz.au>
Date: 19 Jul 90 01:05:32 GMT
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Why don't all you people divert your energies into making your news system
handle 8 bit news rather than developing new and incompatible ways of
bitbashing your files into a format that both news and your unpacking program
(be it /bin/sh, sed, awk or whatever) can cope with?.

Considering the advantages, (especially to binaries groups), It's gotta be the
most worthwhile step to take. It may mean changes at lots of sites, but we
gotta start somewhere.

[ Insert prediction of immenent death-of-net here should net decide that
  status-quo is more important than advancing with the times :-) ]

								Greyham.
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