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From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Binary Files
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.123619@ee.ubc.ca>
Date: 11 Mar 91 20:36:19 GMT
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Well the risk of starting a MAJOR flame war...oh what the hell,
we haven't had a big one in a while ;-)

Maybe  people could post notes _before_ they post a massive 20 part
uuencoded, compressed-zooed-zip tar file to the net. And if response warrants,
then big things could be posted here.

I know some losers only have dial up UUCP connections ;-)
Really, I couldn't care less about them (we have about 1.544Mbps
InterNet running into UBC,
so it doesn't bother me).
But they probably get all wound up when they cat the whole thing
together, and the file
turns out to be corrupt!

Great, now the next 40 messages will be all about binary stuff on the
net!

Perhaps we could agree to send out messages to gauge interest in an
item.
And I know *damn* well that not everyone has ftp, or that they can only
get mail,
but it seems a little drastic to post a huge file, just so a few can get
it in the
mail. I also know that people on the net will help out others, if they
can't ftp
directly.

If we all co-operate, people who don't have ftp will still get stuff
(intact even),
and others won't have to slog through stuff.

Thanks,
John Paul Morrison

PS, did you notice I got through this whole rant without mentioning the
phrase
"scarce net bandwidth"?? Ooops! I said it!!