Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!killer!netsys!len
From: len@netsys.UUCP (Len Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: bin.net
Message-ID: <8828@netsys.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 88 19:33:19 GMT
References: <6062@megaron.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: len@netsys.UUCP (Len Rose)
Organization: NetSys,Germantown Md.
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In article <6062@megaron.arizona.edu> gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
What's the point of this bin.net?  Being of a suspicious nature, I
have this nagging suspicion that the intent is to give binaries an
alternate group, so the anti-binaries types can say "Well, gee, since
binaries have their own net, we shouldn't carry them here."


 I can understand the concern,but "what if" one bright summer day,
 something happened to comp.binaries.ibm.pc .. I guess some people
 would rather wait until that day before organizing something.. It
 is no big deal, only binaries , right?

 Meanwhile,it is a sincere effort. If there are any large machines
 that have need of these binaries, contact us now.

 If there are no sites willing to act as "backbones" then I suppose
 the whole idea is doomed,eh? Which means that no one who counts
 really wants to pay for them.. 

 killer and netsys and who else.

Len

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