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From: maa@nbires.NBI.COM (Mark Armbrust)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: we need an unmoderated binaries group
Message-ID: <7088@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 4 May 89 01:37:45 GMT
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IMHO, what we need are comp.sources.ibm.pc and comp.sources.ibm.pc.d.

It seems to me that most of the problems with an unmoderated binaries group can
be solved with a source group.  What people seem to want is a place to post
(show off?) their clever hacks for the PC.

What I would expect to see would be a bunch of little programs in the less
than 500 line range that wouldn't be too hard to port/transliterate to a new
compiler.

By reading the source code, I can be fairly sure that there will be no ill
effects from running the program.

Big or generally useful sources should be posted to existing source groups;
binaries should be posted to the appropriate moderated group lest we have
193 different versions of keyboard extenders floating around the net [pick
any handy utility you have that works "a little better" than the last version
posted and post it yourself, etc.]

Mark Armbrust
maa@nbires.nbi.com
maa@nbires.UUCP