Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!w8sdz From: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: binary/source postings Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 90 17:06:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 27 Chad, please don't encourage people to post binaries or I'll have to request that the Usenet<->Internet gateway be turned off for comp.os.cpm<->Info-Cpm. I am the Info-Cpm mailing list maintainer and I am the one who gets all the complaints from Internet users when their disk qoutas are exceeded or they have to pay extra fees for large files they don't want to receive. This does not work like Usenet where the news goes into the spool directory and is not counted against anyone's quota. What makes a "discussion group"? The Usenet guidelines say any newsgroup should be treated as a discussion group unless it has "binaries" or "sources" as a part of its group name. The same guidelines state that it's a no-no to post binaries or sources to groups other than those so designated. We have a tremendous resource in the SIMTEL20 archives. Rather than trying to start a binary newsgroup, I hope you will try to find out how to use the file server and help other non-Internet users to do the same. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, & MISC archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, w8sdz@brl.arpa BITNET: w8sdz@NDSUVM1 Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz