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From: Richard_Conto@um.cc.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Splitting into several discussion groups
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Date: 4 Mar 89 21:34:08 GMT
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If it's a choice between one group, and 5 groups, I'd rather have
one group.  I've seen enough junk float by here to know that the
folks in PC/ST land won't think to cross-post their changes. (Of
course, those changes are probably worthless anyway, if they're so
un-professional as think in such machine dependant terms.)
 
So, my vote is to keep things as they are. (Good Conservative Policy,
eh?)
 
Because of the nature of my newsfeed, I would like to see a split
between general discussion and source/diff/binary postings, but
that could become inconvient too.
 
I would also like to ask folks to put a curb on the binary postings.
(uuencoding squeezed tar files is fine, tho.) Making the binaries
available for FTP or BITNET file transfer is fine, and those folks
on the end of primitive networks can always ask for a kindly soul
to send a binary through e-mail.
 
Anyway, the bandwidth I want to conserve is human bandwidth. I don't
give a damm about machine bandwidth, but if there's more postings
(and fixes to postings and fixes to fixes to postings, aiiieee!)
then *SOMETHINGS* *WRONG*.
 
--- Richard Conto
 
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