Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:VirusX 1.6
Message-ID: <2144.AA2144@heimat>
Date: 23 Aug 88 23:17:22 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <26700014@urbsdc>, jwilson@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:

>Please, DON'T post important things like this to comp.binaries.amiga.  My
>system is no longer getting any binary groups ( too much expensive bandwidth).

 I really don't know the % of UseNet readers who get all 5 Amiga groups vs
 those who only receive the 2 message (text) groups. But I think that this
 might be a good time for the 5th and newest member of the Amiga groups
 (alt.sources.amiga) to come into play. VirusX does include the source code,
 and since Peter did start this group to cut down on the lag time, this seems
 like a perfect match. If you only receive the 2 message groups then read on...

>This decision was made far upstream of us, so I'm sure there are lots of sites
>that are not getting binary groups anymore.  I don't care about most of the 
>things posted to the binaries ( and I can get to the archives, if necessary),
>but for programs that everyone should have (such as virusx), a group that 
>everyone gets and reads is a must.

 If the decision was made to stop binary groups at your site (or upstream) then
 posting them to one of the message groups is not the answer but finding a valid
 alternate method of obtaining those files is. There are quite a few commercial
 database services that will have these programs (Bix, Plink, Delphi, CIS). And
 if you don't belong to (or want to join) a commercial service then check into
 an Amiga BBS. There are hundreds (thousands ?) of them around, most free.
 It seems like we sometimes forget that UseNet is not the only avenue for us
 to explore. (Yes "we", even Sneakers is guilty of it sometimes. I think the
 term for it is lazy :-)

>Jeff Wilson


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