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From: alvitar@madhat.UUCP (Phil Harbison)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Binaries/Shareware
Message-ID: <167@madhat.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 02:03:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: madhat.167
Posted: Mon Jun  1 02:03:17 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 03:50:50 EDT
References: <315@pcrat.UUCP> <922@maynard.BSW.COM> <5164@necntc.NEC.COM>
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In article <922@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.UUCP writes:
> I agree.  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...

In article <5164@necntc.NEC.COM>, jeff@necntc.NEC.COM (Jeff Janock) writes:
> This is a very narrow view of things - you are not forced to accept
> any and all news groups that exist; ... Ask you feeds not to transmit
> the binary groups and your 'gripe' is mute.

You are missing the point.  Our complaint is not that binaries were posted
to the net, but that they were posted to comp.sources.misc.  Feel free to
post all the binaries you wish to comp.binaries.*, but don't defeat our
choice not to pay to receive binaries by posting them in the wrong group.

I'm sure this only happened because Brandon is new at the job, and being
a very rational fellow, probably won't let it happen again.  I certainly
hope this criticism is being taken constructively.  Overall, he is doing
a very good job.

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