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From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Binaries/Shareware
Message-ID: <386@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 20:10:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: hqda-ai.386
Posted: Thu May 28 20:10:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 09:53:13 EDT
References: <315@pcrat.UUCP> <922@maynard.BSW.COM> <5164@necntc.NEC.COM>
Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon
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Rick Richardson complained about finding a binary posting in
comp.sources.misc.  In article <5164@necntc.NEC.COM>,
jeff@necntc.NEC.COM (Jeff Janock) writes: 

> Ask you feeds not to transmit the binary groups and your 'gripe'
> is mute.

This gripe is mute.  Rick paid to transfer what was listed as a
SOURCES group.  There is no way for him to know, in advance, that
a binary posting was lurking in there.  Dropping this newsgroup
from his feed will not solve his problem at all.

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