Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!netsys!len
From: len@netsys.UUCP (Len Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Do we *really* need comp.binaries.h
Message-ID: <8426@netsys.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 19:44:10 GMT
References: <6600@dhw68k.cts.com> <46100128@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: len@netsys.UUCP (Len Rose)
Organization: NetSys-Germantown,Md.
Lines: 35


  Someone else said:

  Yes, it also demonstrates the foolishness of sending all those binaries
  over the net when they are easily available from BBS systems everywhere.
 
In article <46100128@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

 Easily available everywhere?  Would you like to tell me how they are easily
 available from a bulletin board here in Champaign-Urbana?
 
 I'm not arguing that this makes Usenet a good or efficient way to distribute
 Hypercard binaries.  I am suggesting that people living in major metropolitan
 areas like the Bay area should not assume that what is available locally to 
 them is typical of what is available throughout the country.

 I said:

 That is why pc pursuit is a good idea... If you have ever seen the bills
 associated with passing news around you'd be more hesitant about adding more
 traffic.. Your "bbs" in Champaign-Urbana are just as accessible as those in
 the Bay Area ... all from Washington DC. .. I'd like to have everything ever
 created to run on the Mac sent to my personal machine via Usenet also,but
 I guess my laziness to go out and snatch them from sumex-aim or simtel20  
 can be overcome..People keep adding all these binary newsgroups and sooner or
 later the whole mess is going to come crashing down.

 If you think I am way off base,go talk to a backbone admin ...



-- 
internet: len@ames.arpa
Len Rose - NetSys
{ames,decuac,ihnp4}!netsys!len