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Subject: Re: new moderated newsgroup(s) for Atari ST software distrbution
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 11:20:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 11:20:59 1987
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turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel) wrote in article <882@imagen.UUCP>:
>	After talking it over with Mark Horton and Gene Spafford we have 
>decided to create one or more moderated newsgroups for atari ST

Don't you just love anarchy?

>	Should there be a seperate group for binary postings without 
>	an accompaning source posting ?

Source or nothing; send binaries through the mail.

>	(There are at least 5 different uuen/decode programs floating
>	around, most of which will not decode files encoded by all of
>	the others)

Then they ain't uu{en,de}code.

>	Should we have a moderated ask-atari group ?

Get outta town.  Have Atari set up a support group on BIX, Delphi or
another COMMERCIAL service.  Leave Usenet alone.

>	(I think some of the people at Atari were a little discouraged

Phht.

>	have I missed anything ?

Maybe the point of Usenet.  Or are you talking about Stargate?

..Bob
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Bob Page,  U of Lowell CS Dept.      ulowell!page,  page@ulowell.CSNET