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From: hst@mh_co2.mh.nl (Klaas Hemstra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GNUPLOT PC Posting
Message-ID: <3144@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: 12 May 89 11:37:38 GMT
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From article <1426@naucse.UUCP>, by wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson):
> Before the rest of you self righteous people send me more mail, please
> read the following.  The uuencoded and arced posting of the GNUPLOT
> source was requested by more than a dozen people on the net.  It was
> in response to a question on this board.  Not everyone has Shar for
> the PC so it was Arced for compression and convenience.  Yes, it could
> have gone to sources but it wasn't requested from there.
> 
> What difference does it "really" make anyway?
> 
> Keep your general flames to yourself!
>

Sorry Bill, but I do not agree at all.
First of all there might be some sites where they archive the sources
and binary groups, and not the discussion groups like c.s.i.p.
Secondly maybe some people do not read the c.s.i.p. group because they are not
interested in discussions an or questions.
And also if it was a small posting of somethig like 5 Kbyte, but this was a
bit more !
You are saying: Why bother to make groups like binaries.

My (self righteous) opinion,

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