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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: uu and otherwise encoded binaries
Message-ID: <10938@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 11:28:02 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 11:28:02 1986
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In article <1293@ecsvax.UUCP> urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
>
>I am not a network official. I am just a tyro users, one individual
>but please hearken to my plea.
>  
>I plead with you not to post uuencoded binaries to net.sources.
>Please post only human readable sources to that collection. The
>only allowable exception that I can see would be for binary data!
>in a standardized interchange format, e.g. an IFF encoded picture
>file, or machine independant initialization data for a posted
>program. Machine specific encryptions should be confined to the
>newsgroup/list devoted to that hardware. 

Interesting.... 

	A year ago the "newsgroup/list devoted to the hardware"
	net.micro.mac threw out mac sources and binaries and CREATED
	net sources.mac.  

	Now, along people come.....   It's an old story.
-- 
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