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- From: kbahey@ncrsaud.SaudiArabia.NCR.COM (Khalid Bahey-elDin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Posting source to non-source groups (was: Re: FAS 2.10 ...)
- Summary: Source should be restricted to source groups?
- Message-ID: <760@ncrsaud.SaudiArabia.NCR.COM>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 19:20:22 GMT
- References: <F5557UC@geminix.in-berlin.de> <102.26574@incc.com> <1992Aug18.113842.28354@pixie.aii.com>
- Reply-To: kbahey@ncrsaud.SaudiArabia.NCR.COM (Khalid Bahey-elDin)
- Organization: NCR Corp., Saudi Arabia
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- In article <1992Aug18.113842.28354@pixie.aii.com> jbh@aii.com and article
- <102.26574@incc.com> jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur) article
- <F5557UC@geminix.in-berlin.de>, gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering)
- and other articles as well.
-
- First, FAS is indeed a useful utility, and thanks for Uwe for spending the time
- to write, and enhance it.
-
- However, Jerry's idea is right, although I don't agree with the method
- (flaming, that is).
-
- Our site too has to pay for the news feed, that is the company pays for it.
- We only get a few Usenet groups for that reason, because we get charged by both
- TIME and VOLUME, since this is an international X.25 connection, and the speed
- is only 2400 baud.
-
- Therefore, if the posting of source will be lengthy, I'd prefer, IMHO, that it
- be only *announced* in non-source groups, and those who want it can ftp/uucp/
- ftpmail/e-mail, ..etc. from the appropriate archives/persons.
-
- I think this is more appropriate in a international network like Usenet, and to
- ease bandwidth load.
-
- Regards.
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