Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!ogicse!plains!overby From: overby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Bitnet-sites (was Re: amoeba ??) Message-ID: <9073@plains.NoDak.edu> Date: 21 Mar 91 19:26:09 GMT References: <48414@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: Geeks of the Round Table @ North Dakota State U Lines: 34 In article <48414@nigel.ee.udel.edu> RECHTIEN%DOSUNI1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jens-Heiner Rechtien) writes: >Maarten Huisjes writes: >> } -- Everyone should compress and uuencode his diff's -- >> NO! I agree with Maarten. I think the rest of the world is stupid to sit here and pat BITNET people on the head. If you got a problem with your network, either fix it yourself or GO PAY IBM TO FIX IT! You're on an IBM network; don't they give you good technical support? >This small increase of netload should be tolerable. Not uuencoded sources It's not the net load that I really hate (not that I like it) -- it's the manual work I have to do to decode the postings, and the additional disk space it sucks up before I decode everything. We're talking megabytes here... It's degrading that the whole reason for the uuencoding is to help pacify an IBM creation. >Many people have only Bitnet access (I believe), Hey! Wait a minute! Don't forget about MUGNET. I believe a majority of the MUGNET sites (and there appear to be quite a few of those these days) are running MINIX, and you're obviously running MINIX.... so... go mail waltje@minixug.mugnet.org. The one thing I'm looking forwards to a Minix sources group for is to be able to stuff EVERYTHING that comes across it into a nice armor uuencoded shield so you BITNET people can quit telling the rest of us to run our networks like it's EBCDIC! **FLAME OFF** -- Glen Overby uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet)