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- Subject: Reboot programs & the FAQ (What one little binary posting can do)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.133451.12813@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:34:51 GMT
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- References: <t0gn_fr.messina@netcom.com> <1992Aug31.084119.29138@uwasa.fi> <BtxGK6.Dyu@NCoast.ORG>
- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
- Summary: (Can you say, "Waste more bandwidth?")
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- In article <BtxGK6.Dyu@NCoast.ORG> brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown) writes:
- >
- >In this case, however, both you and Tony missed what IMHO is the most
- >important point: the original article omitted quite important facts
- >which are in the FAQ. Disregarding those facts, as the article did, can
- >lead to a loss of data on one's hard disk. The question of whether
- >binary should have been posted is nugatory, since the subject was more
- >fully covered by the FAQ list.
-
- I think that that (the propagation of incorrect solutions) is part and
- parcel of the ban on binary postings. I.e., the real concern of
- unbridled binary postings is that some of the things posted are
- dangerous.
-
- So the two ideas are related...
-
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- A note to new readers: the weasely :-) symbol is frowned upon in this
- group. Any questions, see Phil Gustafson who will gladly rearrange your
- diodes for you.
- - From the AFU FAQ -
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- - pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
- hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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