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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Looking for .Z uncompressor
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.052939.28644@uwasa.fi>
Date: 20 Jan 91 05:29:39 GMT
References: <1991Jan18.013759.15867@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <91Jan18.180825est.22274@me.utoronto.ca> <OTTO.91Jan19235950@tukki.jyu.fi>
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In article <OTTO.91Jan19235950@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
>I've had enough of this whining "Where can I find uncompress for DOS".
>Well, here it is.  An uuencoded self-extracting zip archive, cross-posted
>to many groups as a attempt to kill this thread once and for all.
>
>This is also available from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil and nic.funet.fi,
>but of course this is too complicated for the whiners.
:
>begin 644 comp430d.exe

Sorry friend Otto, but I have to remind the readers of something,
even if I know that you are one of the bona fide contributors on the
net, and even though you are right in what you say.

12. *****
 Q: May just go ahead and I post binaries in non-moderated groups?

 A: I would strongly advise against it.  On top of that I seem to
recall that the net rules don't like it (news.announce.newusers has
more information), let's look at this from a purely practical point
of view. If netters start posting binaries, several problems will
soon occur:
    1) The traffic will explode, since it is bound to be more or
       less haphazard. This is bound to invoke action sooner or
       later from the systems along the feed and/or net
       administration.
    2) There are no guarantees against trojans and other nasties.
       (This does not mean that the other methods are absolutely
       safe, but the likelihood is smaller by far.)
    3) The probability of commercial material being posted over the
       net increases, with all the consequent repercussions.
    4) The idea is very wasteful of net resources. Remember that
       there are over 50000 readers in eg comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d.
       Much better to put/get stuff into/from the orderly moderated
       groups, or use anonymous ftp, mail servers, or good BBSes.

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun