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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
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Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????.
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Date: 1 Aug 90 09:33:52 GMT
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In article <15710@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>[Binaries] are intrinsically parochial, where text and source are ecumenical.

Good stuff - I like the way that was put.

>The "existence proof" of all the PC binaries carried on BBS's and
>services is also a sufficiency proof.  These folks HAVE their BBS's
>already, and CompuServe, and GEnie, and BIX, etc, etc.  They don't need
>to turn Usenet into another one.

Most people from the BBS crowd who I know like Usenet *BECAUSE* it is ^M
different.  They wouldn't want it to change into a monolithic BBS. ^M
And they're prepared to put in the effort to make sure it stays that way. ^M
^M :-)
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