Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: 8-bit BBC postings Keywords: 8-bit Message-ID: Date: 9 Jan 91 12:09:29 GMT References: <8683@star.cs.vu.nl> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 35 gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos) writes: > vac122g@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Daniel Bowen) writes: > >ALL 8-bit related postings have somewhere in the subject line "8-bit". > >Then those who aren't interested can filter them out using their kill > >files. > > Let's propose some more: > binary Archimedes encoded binary > source Archimedes (encoded or plain) source > > I feel at least "binary" is necessary. As an Electron user, i *do* like > to read most articles about the Arc, but i can't do anything with those > binaries, so i just don't want to see them. Binaries belong in a binaries group, as any Usenet old-timer will tell you. If you all want to see binaries for Acorn machines, go propose a suitable group. The instructions are posted in news.announce.newusers. Otherwise if I keep seeing binaries in this discussion group I'll just stop our whole site from getting it. It's not worth our time or money to download large executable files for a machine we don't have. There are lots of other sites out there inhabited by people who feel the same way (i.e., UUCP sites.) If you don't want to lose a lot of readers, you'd better separate the binaries out of this newsgroup. Alternatively, you could use eunet.micro.acorn for the code and this group for the discussion. I'm not sure if Eunet groups are supposed to follow the "no binaries in a discussion group" restriction which is generally followed on mainstream Usenet. mathew.