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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.admin
Subject: Re: binaries on the net
Message-ID: <3083@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 12:18:15 GMT
References: <1574@looking.UUCP> <22099@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <392@pan.UUCP> <4577@hoptoad.uucp> <1220@ssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1220@ssc.UUCP> fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes:
>...net distribution of
>binaries is not free.  As a usenet node we pay for that distribution
>every day.
>...I hesitate to chuck all the binary groups as I expect
>there would be someone who cared somewhere.
>I would rather send $3 to someone
>for the disk than deal with watching for the binary I want, extracting
>it...

Phil Hughes prefers no binaries on the net.  As I understand it, his
site chooses to accept and transmit binaries, because he believes
others value them, yet he prefers that no other site accept and
transmit binaries, because his site doesn't value them.

I'm getting tied up in knots analyzing this reasoning.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi