Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!du248-10.cc.iastate.edu!explorer From: explorer@iastate.edu (Graff Michael L) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Subject: Re: tetris and posting sources Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 91 14:00:40 GMT References: <15479153@mailgsm.mendelson.com> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 42 In <15479153@mailgsm.mendelson.com> gsm@mailgsm.mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes: >kimmel@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Mathew Kimmel) said: >>I just assumed it wasn't cool to post sources here, since I'd never seen >>any. But, maybe I was wrong, so I'll give it a shot. >No, you were right. Posting source files to this group causes problems for >those of us who pay for our news distribution. Since 50k is the equivalent of >SEVERAL WEEKS traffic in c.o.c, posting source files will cause many of us >to have to drop this group. > >I am in the U.S. and use UUNET as my feed. I pay about one cent a k-bytes, but >my news feed (which is a small one) still costs me over a hundered dollars a >month. > >There are some people on this group (Joachim for example) who have to pay >government owned telephone companies ridiculous (to us) rates for data >telephone service. I think he pays close to a dollar a k-byte. > >So please don't post sources here. If you want files from a different country >make a personal arangment to email it or (heaven forbid) air-mail a diskette. What about those of us who DON'T have to pay for connections? Would it be all that bad to create a new newsgroup for sources and binaries? I hear half of you bitching about sources posted here, and the other half says ``do it!'' and be creating a new group we would make MOST of both groups happy! And E-mail is no solution. People along the way may still have to pay for it. >You can send 1.2 megabytes of compressed (almost 2 megabytes) of data on one >diskette for about $3.00 (including diskette). And it gets there in a week. Mail would work, but why? I would not want to send fifteen copies out to people at $3.00 each, and if I make them pay for it I have to wait for the cash to get here first. Add that to the week delay. [stuff about Tetris being a trademark and copyright deleted. It is true.] --