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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.groups
Subject: Re: Binaries/Shareware
Message-ID: <929@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 06:24:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: maynard.929
Posted: Thu May 28 06:24:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 01:22:55 EDT
References: <315@pcrat.UUCP> <922@maynard.BSW.COM> <5164@necntc.NEC.COM>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Followup-To: poster
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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Xref: utgpu news.misc:399 news.groups:808
Summary: annnoyed by binaries in comp.SOURCES.misc

In article <5164@necntc.NEC.COM> jeff@necntc.NEC.COM (Jeff Janock) writes:
] 
] In article <922@maynard.BSW.COM> I wrote:
] ] I, also, was annoyed to have spent real money and tied up valuable
] ] disk space for binaries for a machine I don't even own...
] 
] This is a very narrow view of things - you are not forced to accept
] any and all news groups that exist; that is what the backbones are 
] there for.  Ask you feeds not to transmit the binary groups and
] your 'gripe' is mute...

You're forgetting that the original posting about which we complained
was in comp.SOURCES.misc.  If it was in a binaries only newsgroup I
wouldn't have minded, since we junk those groups.

Maybe we need a comp.binaries.ibmpc?
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Internet: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM          120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
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