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From: keithe@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Limit binaries to FIDONET? - just say NO!
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Date: 19 May 88 17:37:18 GMT
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
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In article <629@csccat.UUCP> loci@csccat.UUCP (Chuck Brunow) writes:
>
>	Numerous people have suggested FIDONET as a viable solution.

Not around here, they haven't...

>	Why not drop binaries from Unix sites and route them through
>	FIDO?

That's fine for the minority with FIDONET access. How 'bout the
rest of us?

             Then there is no problem of compressing compressed
>	files.

No, just a problem with getting them to people who would like to
have them.

keith (there's a bad idea born every minute) ericson