Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!elg
From: elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: kermit for c-128
Message-ID: <3038@killer.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 88 19:18:43 GMT
References: <588@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Organization: Bayou Telecommunications
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in article <588@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, relkins@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Rob Elkins) says:
> Are you sure that kermit V2.0 would be too large to post?  I'm pretty sure
> I've seen larger postings on pc newsgroups.

Take a look at the Arbitron ratings for comp.sys.cbm, then compare those with
the Arbitron ratings for, say, comp.sys.ibm-pc. We're talking about 10 times
more readers in the latter newsgroup... 10 times more people paying the bills
for moving news around. Not to mention that just about everybody paying the
bills has an IBM PC... while I know of no one who can afford to pay for USENET
bills, who owns a Commodore 64 (with the exception of the guys who run machine
"cbmvax", of course :-).

Another thing is the general network policy on source vs. binaries. The source
to kermit is over 165K long, and is useless unless you have a certain
assembler running on a Unix system. The binaries aren't tiny, themselves...
I'd guesstimate that we're talking 35K or so, which, uuencoded, would have to
be broken up into two files -- not an easy thing to handle.

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