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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.mentorg.com!caeco!neb!jim
- From: jim@neb (Jim Hood)
- Subject: Atari binaries postings. A comment...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.143935.7952@neb>
- Organization: Nebula BBS - Salt Lake City Utah, USA
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:39:35 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- phbill@well.sf.ca.us writes:
- >jim@neb (Jim Hood) writes:
- >
- >> Is there a reason that we here in the atari 8-bit newsgroup are
- >> NOT doing this on a regular basis and in a defined area??
- >>
- >
- >Here're the reasons >I< can think of:
- >
- >1) would take up too much space
-
- 3 files a month??? I don't think so.
- Then comp.binaries.ibm.pc, comp.binaires.pictures (etc) would not exist.
-
- >2) we have the atari archives
-
- To which not everyone has access. EVEN VIA MAIL. I mailed 3 days
- ago, and still have not recieved a reply....
-
- >3) would everybody ALWAYS get EVERY file posted?
- > I ALWAYS read EVERY message posted... but I haven't sent for EVERY
- > archive file.. and simply posting them ALL OVER the world wouldn't
- > be very sane when anyone with UseNet/uucp access can just mail for
- > them...
-
- I am not talking about posting all of atari.archive here. I mean an
- area LIKE comp.binaries.ibm.pc where an ocasional file comes by.
-
- Oh well. As I can see, no one here seems interested in exchanging
- binaries via usenet news. I think that is too bad. If there was a
- group for the exchange of binaries, then those intersted could
- participate (and it might even increase the stuff availaible at the
- archives [because people would copy it to the archive], and those not
- interested woulden't even have to look at the news group.
-
- -jim
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