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From: faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel P Faigin)
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Subject: Re: Binary groups need their own hierarchy
Message-ID: <5284@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 16:26:37 GMT
References: <397@pan.UUCP>
Reply-To: faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel P Faigin)
Organization: Unisys - System Development Group, Santa Monica
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In article <397@pan.UUCP> jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes:
>By putting binaries in their own hierarchy, bin.*, it would require specific
>action to *receive* them, rather than to block them.

I have also been thinking carefully about the binary problem, and
have come to the same conclusion. If we were to put binaries in
their own top level heirarchy, we would:

1) Eliminate a lot of the clutter in the comp. heirarchy
2) Allow easier segregation of binaries to those sites that wish
   to carry them.
3) Quite possibly, simplify archival and expiration.

Think back as to why the net. heirarchy was originally split into
comp., news., sci., misc., soc., and talk.. I think it may be
time to split comp. into comp. for technical ascii discussions,
and bin. for binaries.

Daniel
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