Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!matt
From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Not the kind you have to wind up on Sunday)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Binary groups need their own hierarchy
Keywords: bin.* hierarchy
Message-ID: <14764@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Date: 24 May 88 18:23:55 GMT
References: <397@pan.UUCP> <5284@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <231@mcf.UUCP> <4435@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <2676@louie.udel.EDU> <1008@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
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In article <1008@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> olsen@ll-xn.UUCP (Jim Olsen) writes:
) This proposal would benefit only one class of sites: those who don't want
) binaries, and want comp.*, but don't want to bother excluding
) comp.binaries.

Not necessarily so.  Suppose a significant fraction of the sites that
don't want binaries decide to cease accepting or passing binaries.
How is the rest of the net to know whether the set of sites that does
receive binaries is still connected or not?

				Matt