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From: heuring@boulder.UUCP (Vincent Heuring)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.sources.mac,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Removing Macintosh related groups from the net.
Message-ID: <227@boulder.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 15:16:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 15:16:57 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Dec-85 05:49:41 EST
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Reply-To: heuring@boulder.UUCP (Vincent Heuring)
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In article <248@mplvax.UUCP> rec@mplvax.UUCP (Richard Currier) writes:
>In article <3569@utah-cs.UUCP> j@utah-cs.UUCP writes:
>>Those who want to get rid of the appeal of binaries in net.sources.mac
>>merely have to post a few binhex's there which while advertised as great
>>games trash everyone's floppies instead.  Or post a terminal emulator
>>that trashes their Unix files or more subtly compromises their system.
>I assume that you are prepared to deal with the consequences of deliberately
>sabotaging the legitimate Unix related work of many professionals on the net
>who use the software as productivity tools. 
>My administrators and yours have been alerted that there are now people on
>the net like you. Thank you for the warning. 
>	richard currier		marine physical lab	u.c. san diego
>	{ihnp4|decvax|akgua|dcdwest|ucbvax}	!sdcsvax!mplvax!rec

You miss the point, Richard. This ugliness is here, just like nuclear
war, or more to the point, AIDS. And personally, I wouldn't download
and run a binary without the source to peruse, anymore than I would have
sex with an anonymous stranger.

Vincent P. Heuring. ECE Dep't. University of Colo. Boulder
boulder!heuring

"Don't fool with that binary, Roger, you don't know *where* it's been."