Xref: utzoo comp.os.os2:528 news.groups:16316 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!uflorida!mephisto!prism!gitpyr!peggy From: peggy@pyr.gatech.EDU (Cris Simpson) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION of comp.binaries.os2 Message-ID: <9778@pyr.gatech.EDU> Date: 12 Jan 90 13:11:34 GMT References: <319@latvax8.lat.oz> Reply-To: peggy@pyr.gatech.edu (Cris Simpson) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 9 Given that the overall volume is not that high, and that many sites do not receive binary groups, could we hold off on creation of a binaries group by STRONGLY ENCOURAGING posting of sources instead of the binaries? For one thing, I suspect that sources may compress to be smaller than the corresponding binaries. The other is that the sources are MUCH more useful. cris