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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: comp.os.minix splitup
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Date: 22 Mar 91 10:35:44 GMT
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In article <9103220852.AA04339@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu> cae@sdfvm1.vnet.ibm.com (Cornelius Caesar) writes:
>It might also be interesting to discuss the creation of something like
>comp.os.minix.binaries.  

I think that is a bad idea.  The spirit of MINIX says one should distribute
sources.  Only under rare circumstances (legal or technical, e.g. program
too big for asld) should binaries be posted. This does not require a new
group.

I don't understand the desire to have so many little groups.  I suppose
people like that like to have 50 windows on their screen, one for every
possible activity (e.g., one for reading each newsgroup, one for sending
domestic mail to men, one for sending domestic mail to women, one for sending
foreign mail to men, one for sending foreign mail to women, one for editing 
large texts without mathematics, one for editing small texts without 
mathematics, one for editing large texts with mathematics, one for editing 
small texts with mathematics, one for running programs that are known to work, 
one for running new programs that are being debugged, one for troff, one for 
an analog clock, one for a digital clock, etc.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)