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From: IHLS400@INDYCMS (Holly Lee Stowe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Dead groups
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Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 13:12:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  6 13:12:00 1987
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>"Why are the binary and source news groups so dead?"

It seems they are dead because people insist on posting programs
to the Info mailing list instead.

** slow burn **

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm a bit shy on disk space
here.  It seems that many of the volumes of INFO-ATARI16 that are
coming across the net have UUEncoded programs included with them.
Most recently was a 690 line volume that included about 75 lines
of post and 615 lines of DC Format 2.21 for color AND we are told
that the monochrome version is next!  I'm just as interested as
the next person in obtaining these programs, but PLEASE let me
do it in my own time from one of the file servers!!  DON'T include
these in the message postings.  The postings are distributed through
Bitnet as an entire volume.  No one truly edits them.  Please show
some consideration to those of us who cannot simply skip those
messages in which we have no interest currently as I assume you
can do in the newsgroups.  If you've lost Mr. Turner's address
or whatever, post a message to that effect.  I'm sure someone out
there has it handy, and posting that kind of message is MUCH shorter
than just posting 600 lines of program that I can't do anything with
right now.

Pretty please?  With brown sugar and a cherry on top?

** cold water **

-Holly
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