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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????.
Message-ID: <14W43HC@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 24 Jul 90 20:22:25 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <JCP&4:&@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
> Breaking binaries on Usenet will get rid of them, all right, but at the
> cost of cutting Usenet users off completely from nearly all
> residtributed programs. You won't get the authors to do things your way.

Breaking binaries on UNIX didn't have that result. You're contradicting
yourself.

Remember, Usenet is not a BBS.
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Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
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