Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hoptoad!gnu
From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <4521@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 6 May 88 09:11:08 GMT
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <537@sol.warwick.ac.uk>
Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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Has the first virus been transmitted by Usenet yet?  Just think, 8100
readers of comp.binaries.ibm.pc will all be infected at once!

I don't accept or transmit the binaries newsgroups (on hoptoad), so maybe
I don't get to vote; but I think that rather than figuring out fancy ways
to pass binaries around, we should just remove them from the Usenet.

People who want binaries can start their own alternative network (bin.xxx?)
and waste their own bandwidth and eyewidth.

People who want to display their ignorance about compress should do so
to a bartender somewhere, not to the net.
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu        gnu@toad.com
"Use the Source, Luke...."