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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why load "SHARE" (was Re: program to break 32MB barrier)
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.080203.4362@uwasa.fi>
Date: 17 Feb 91 08:02:03 GMT
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In article <8975@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
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>section 1 of uuencode 3.16 of file noshare.com    by R.E.M.
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>begin 644 noshare.com
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I understand that you mean well and try to help out the community. 
We do appreciate that.  So don't take this as a flame, it is not
meant to be one, but please consider this:

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 70000 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 garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun