Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!bionet!uwm.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????. Message-ID: Date: 23 Jul 90 15:32:51 GMT References: <1990Jul13.022224.25441@lth.se> <3119.269d97ea@mccall.com> <777@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <15688@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Jul21.054016.10409@looking.on.ca> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 11 In article <1990Jul21.054016.10409@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > I would support a move to design a binary transmission format, have the > new releases of B and C news support them, and have all the moderators switch, > thus forcing anybody who wants binaries to get off their duffs and upgrade. This is a great idea. It will break binaries at enough sites that maybe the bloody things will finally dry up and blow away and maybe even some of the stuff currently posted in binary form will start showing up as source. Binaries and News go together about as well as rock videos and Masterpiece Theatre. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`