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From: anderson@uwmacc.UUCP (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: SPL Binary
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Date: Sat, 1-Nov-86 21:08:21 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  1 21:08:21 1986
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> [...],,,,But The WORST part was I had to get a binary file from the 
> WRONG!!!!! place, why can't people put thier files (binary) in net-       
> .sources or in whatever category they belong in....I can only assume
> from the posting and the defensiveness on the part of the poster that
> he was an amateur and lacked proper netiquette....Well I suppose I
> have flamed him enough for his lack of whatever he is missing....
> 	And by the way the file reached more than one sit screwed
> up I downloaded from two separate sites and got the exact byte-
> counts and messages each time.....Amateurs!!!
> 
Well, the problems I had were none of Dennis Baer's doing, because
I had correctly saved and concatenated his 5-part post. Uudecoding
it went without a hitch. Once I got my both Kermits working together
in proper fashion (our Unix Kermit is badly braindamaged), I got the
SPLLIB.ARC over to my micro and unarced without any problems. So the
posting was complete and correct.

On the point of *where* it was posted, unless I'm mistaken there is
in fact *no* correct place to post binaries on the net, and the
backbones have lately been complaining quite loudly about such
posting being improper here. To be fair to Baer [:-)], those
complaints came *after* his posting. I believe net.sources is
quite specifically *not* for binaries, hence the name "sources."

File SPLLIB.ARC is freely available from the Bulletin Board of
the Nicolet Instrument Corp., 1200/2400 baud, 608/273-5037, Mike
Brown, SysOp, nights and weekends.

Personally, the breach of etiquette offends me more than the
breach of netiquette--consider the root meaning of the word
"amateur," for example. A little generosity of spirit for those
more *and* less skilled than ourselves, maybe ... :-) :-) :-) ??
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