Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:20254 alt.flame:2080 Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!mnetor!cxsea!ssc-vax!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!rutgers!labrea!agate!pasteur!ic.Berkeley.EDU!faustus From: faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.flame Subject: Re: Death to binaries (was re: pictures in binaries) Keywords: Like wow, man. Message-ID: <4006@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Date: 22 Jun 88 02:43:46 GMT Article-I.D.: pasteur.4006 References: <25945@bbn.COM> <4476@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2132@sugar.UUCP> <4523@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2145@sugar.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu Lines: 12 In article <25945@bbn.COM>, cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes: > I wonder if, for the binary-likers, just having the binaries > *available* would be adequate.... if you saw a particular suite of > sources or binaries that interested you, you could just email to > the server and get what you wanted back by email. Well, think about it. Isn't the whole point of netnews to prevent fifty people at the same site from getting the same thing via e-mail? A better scheme would be to post a phone # for the server and let the user pay his own phone bills. Wayne