Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stretch.cs.mun.ca!leif!cloader From: cloader@kean.ucs.mun.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: binaries discussion Message-ID: <174401@kean.ucs.mun.ca> Date: 21 Dec 90 12:27:46 GMT References: <1990Dec17.141816.16081@newcastle.ac.uk> Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada Lines: 37 In article , mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes: > Albert.Koelmans@newcastle.ac.uk (Albert Koelmans) writes: >> I am posting the following message on behalf of Neil Moss. Comments Anyone? >> >> I've been reading the discussion in c.s.a about the posting of binaries. >> I have no newsfeed access, save an FTP server in the states which archives >> it. As such, I can't read e.m.a. If as one person proposed, e.m.a. be kept >> for binaries and c.s.a for discussion, I'm going to miss out, along with >> all the other Americans. I don't suppose many people are in this situation, >> but if you could raise this point in c.s.a, I'd be grateful. > > Well, since I'm one of the people who's suggested it, I suppose I'd > better answer. > > I suggest that you campaign for a comp.binaries.acorn. If there are > sufficient US Archie users to justify it, then it will be created. > Most people in NORTH AMERICA (this is Candada) not get eunet! We get it here but can't post to it. >> This wouldn't matter at all if there is an FTP server which archives >> eunet news. Whilst I'm at Uni, this doesn't matter, as I can use the >> info-server, but I won't be here forever. > > You have mail, do you not? I assume therefore that you can access the > Lancs PDSOFT archives and get your binaries that way. > Try at I might I have never got anything other than HELP files ... and long silence. > > mathew. > -- > Mantis Consultants, Unit 56, St. John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge. CB4 4WS. > mathew@mantis.co.uk \\ "CP/M is to metric as cockroaches are to a Timex watch" Charles Loader Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland charles@munucs.ucs.mun.ca