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From: cliff@demon.co.uk (Cliff Stanford)
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Binary Postings (was: Errata file for UNDOCUMENTED DOS)
Keywords: binary postings
Message-ID: <1991May27.194227.23528@demon.co.uk>
Date: 27 May 91 19:42:27 GMT
References: <1991May24.180400.27553@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1991May25.201843.12565@uwasa.fi>
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In article <1991May25.201843.12565@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>Thank you for your kind efforts, but please also consider this:
>
>Nevertheless, I would strongly advise against posting binaries to
>unmoderated groups.  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.

	The posting in question was a compressed text file.  IMHO compressing
and uuencoding a lage text file is a far better idea that posting it in
its raw text format.  How you think it can increase net traffic (one of
the points you made) I fail to comprehend.  Now ZIP is available on so
many platforms, I feel that more large text files sould be zipped before
sending out on the net.
	Regards,
		Cliff.
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