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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.sources.mac
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Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 09:40:52 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 24 09:40:52 1985
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> 	Let's get rid of net.sources.mac. It has never been used to 
> distribute _sources_, instead it's used to distribute various pieces of
> ascii-encoded binary programs, most of which are the so-called 'shareware'.
> This does not benefit the net as a whole, nor does it accomplish anything
> other than giving free programs, possibly buggy, or even harmful, to
> Macintosh owners.
> 
Bullshit.  I have posted exactly two items to net.sources.mac; both
were source (SKEL in C, and the original version of macsend).  I have seen
a good deal of source code in net.sources.mac, much of which has been
useful to me.  The solution to the perceived net.sources.mac "problem"
is for a greater proportion of sources to be posted, I'll agree.  But
it is rhetorical crap to say that it "has never been used to distribute
_sources_".

BTW, Macintosh sources in C, by my measurement, occupy from two to three
times the space that the binhex executable does.  Just so that you know
that the space problem, if it is that, has nothing to do with the posting
of binhex.