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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Source code newsgroup for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <4827@teddy.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 88 15:05:53 GMT
References: <1555@bu-tyng.bu.edu> <3186@bsu-cs.UUCP> <11803@ut-sally.UUCP> <7978@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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In article <7978@brl-smoke.ARPA> w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR|towson) <w8sdz>) writes:
>I don't agree that another newsgroup is needed for sources.  There is no
>need to post clear text when we can package related files in ARCs ...

As has already been discussed several times, this is a BAD IDEA.  Arc'ing
text files (program source files) causes significantly HIGHER transmission
costs for most usenet sites!  This is because news is often compressed
before transmission:  Ascii files compress to a much smaller size than
ascii files that have been arc'ed (compressed), then uuencoded.

This restriction is not true for BINARY files:  only ascii text.  Please
use shar format or other cleartext packaging method for source!
-- 
     john nelson

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