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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.admin
Subject: Re: binaries on the net
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Date: 17 May 88 23:09:51 GMT
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>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.

Hmm. It seems perfectly clear to me:

o Phil does't believe binaries believe on the net.

o The net still has legal binary groups

o Phil has not yet chosen to deviate his site from the "official" list of
  legal groups.

o Phil believes that the net, as a whole, should make a decision to remove
  binaries from the net, rather than having sites drop the distribution in
  an ad hoc manner.

How much clearer can it get?

For the record, I'm with Phil. Binaries have outlived their usefulness.


Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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