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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Death to binaries (was re: pictures in binaries)
Summary: Uh oh, Peter gets heavy.
Keywords: Like wow, man.
Message-ID: <4476@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 88 06:40:17 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <2124@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I realise that there might well be a lot more people who can use binaries
>than sources, however we (yes, an editorial we) believe that the purpose
>of usenet is to support: first, UNIX programmers and users; second, programmers
>of other species of operating system; and third, everyone else.

``We'' Kimasabbee ?

>Over in news.admin, Chuq is asking that all comp.sources be deleted except for
>comp.sources.unix. That is, he's advocating the reduction of Usenet to the
>first group only. I think that throwing the third group to the wolves first
>might save our skins.

Chuq is looney tunes. He gets like this every time his wife cuts him
off or a big machine drops off the net. In this case it's really 
overreaction because the issue that raised this - ihnp4 not passing
third party email is a non-issue. Ihnp4 hasnt been a news backbone
site for ages now, and handles an extremely miniscule portion of
email anyway.

Because it is decentralized, you can't kill USENET on purpose or
by accident. If the feds came in tomorrow and tried to shut USENET
off, they wouldnt be able to.

True anarchy.

Translation: No Chuq, the sky isn't falling. That was a webber bird.

>Again. Usenet is not a BBS. Usenet is a resource for programmers. Let's
>not lose sight of that.

Gosh Peter, thanks for telling us what USENET is. You are however,
completely blowing it out your bunghole.

USNET is a bunch of computers exchanging mail and news. Anything
else, is your imagination.

Translation: please explain, Peter, how the following groups are
a "resource for programmers":

general alt.individualism alt.aquaria alt.sex alt.drugs alt.rock-n-roll
talk.bizarre alt.flame la.news ca.general ca.news.group ca.politics
ca.test ca.wanted comp.protocols.tcp-ip.eniac comp.risks comp.society
comp.sources.games comp.sys.apple :-) comp.sys.ibm.pc :-) :-)
comp.text comp.text.desktop misc.consumers misc.consumers.house
misc.forsale misc.handicap misc.headlines misc.invest misc.kids
misc.legal misc.misc misc.taxes misc.test misc.wanted news.admin
news.announce.important news.config news.groups news.lists news.misc
news.newsites news.software.b news.software.notes news.sysadmin
rec.arts.books rec.arts.comics rec.arts.drwho rec.arts.movies
rec.arts.movies.reviews rec.arts.poems rec.arts.sf-lovers
rec.arts.startrek rec.arts.tv rec.arts.tv.soaps rec.arts.wobegon
rec.audio rec.autos rec.autos.tech rec.aviation rec.bicycles rec.birds

(I could go on, but you get the point)

>On the plus side, comp.*.amiga was a lot further down in the top-40 this
>time around...

BFD. Ever see a #1 group actually get killed ? Soc.singles or .women
will go first. But blood will be shed first.

>-- Peter da Silva 

-- 
                              "Shrimp Ahoy"
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard