Xref: utzoo news.groups:26715 comp.sys.acorn:90 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!usc!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!acorn!andy From: andy@acorn.co.uk (Andy Ingle) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.acorn,eunet.micro.acorn Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.binaries.acorn Message-ID: <4534@acorn.co.uk> Date: 20 Dec 90 14:34:41 GMT References: <1638@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> <1642@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> Organization: Acorn Computers Limited, Cambridge, UK Lines: 27 rcpieter@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr) writes: >This is even worse! comp.sys.acorn was created to have a world-wide >replacement for the european-only eunet.micro.acorn. There have always >been binaries in eunet.micro.acorn, and with comp.sys.acorn replacing >eunet.micro.acorn there is no reason that binaries should not be posted >to comp.sys.acorn. I couldn't agree more! Very few of the {comp.sys,eunet.micro}.acorn articles contain binaries, why create a new group just to please a few penny-pinching system administrators. At the moment the traffic on comp.sys.acorn is fairly light, partly because some people are still posting to eunet.micro.acorn only. If you can't afford to take a few binaries don't take the group at all. A binaries vote should only take place when there is an average of (say) 40 or more new articles each day in comp.sys.acorn and at least 10 of these are binaries. If someone were to take a vote today I would vote NO. Cluttering up the namespace with lots of seldom-used newsgroups is just stupid. --Andy Ingle -- "Well, I wanted fur to know what hedgehogs lives on: so I be a-keeping this here hedgehog - fur to see if it eats potatoes --" "Much better keep a potato," said the Professor; "and see if hedgehogs eat it!" -- Lewis Carroll