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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Binaries/Shareware
Message-ID: <315@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-May-87 22:58:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: pcrat.315
Posted: Mon May 25 22:58:48 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 26-May-87 05:37:53 EDT
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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Keywords: Expensive


I'm now a 'paying' USENET member (by virtue of the uunet experiment),
I've been watching my phone costs using Jack Bonn's 'uucost' program.
I've subscribed to all the source groups.  Tonight I waited while 45
minutes of traffic came in over comp.sources.misc.  I could hardly
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contain myself waiting to see what new goodies the net had brought
me.  Well, I was struck down with disappointment when I discovered
that the $2.25 I just spent was:
	1) A REPOST of
	2) A UUENCODED, BINARY copy of
	3) A SHAREWARE program (ARC520), which
	4) You can get on nearly any local RBBS

This came through a MODERATED group.  I was under the impression that
items 2) and 3) were strictly forbidden on the net.  And I thought
that the delays of having a moderated group were supposed to be
balanced by the benefits of eliminating these sort of postings.
I certainly didn't want to spend the money for this.  Any net-guru's
care to comment?

Give USENET source, or give it death!
-- 
	Rick Richardson, President, PC Research, Inc.
(201) 922-1134 (voice, nights)   OR   (201) 834-1378 (voice, days)
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