Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn,eunet.micro.acorn Subject: Re: Binary war Keywords: binaries,bashing Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 91 13:00:25 GMT References: <1446@tnosoes.izf.tno.nl> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 23 sjouke@tnosoes.izf.tno.nl (Sjouke Burry) writes: > With the activation of a new worldwide newsgroup for acorn machines, > a number of new members apparently see fit to start of by trying to kill of > the submission of binaries in this newsgroup. Besides the fact that this is > not a very polite way of joining up , they also try to change a policy on > our newsgroup, which has worked well for the last years. Which newsgroup are you talking about? comp.sys.acorn was formed as a discussion group as I recall, so it is inappropriate to post binaries there and always has been. On the other hand, eunet.micro.acorn has a history of binary postings. Since nobody seems to know what the rules are for eunet groups, you can presumably carry on posting your binaries there. > Binaries are two of the three reasons I participate, and occasionally > submit. Maybe we need rules about the maximum length, but for those few > binaries we see, we need neither a moderator nor a separate newsgroup. Unless, of course, you care about the number of readers you get. mathew.