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From: bees@infoswx.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: uu and otherwise encoded binaries
Message-ID: <45100034@infoswx>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 12:57:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 12:57:00 1986
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> 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. 

Hmmm... in a network based on uucp, where every installation has
a uuencode and a uudecode, I would consider that very standard.
But, maybe that isn't really what you meant.

Ray Davis