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- From: charles.berlinguette@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Charles Berlinguette)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Atari binaries postings.
- Message-ID: <1359.78.uupcb@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 10:26:00 GMT
- Reply-To: charles.berlinguette@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Charles Berlinguette)
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- Organization: Outland BBS-UUCP
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- JH>Organization: Nebula BBS - Salt Lake City Utah, USA
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- JH>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
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- JH>3 files a month??? I don't think so.
- JH>Then comp.binaries.ibm.pc, comp.binaires.pictures (etc) would not exist.
-
- >2) we have the atari archives
-
- JH>To which not everyone has access. EVEN VIA MAIL. I mailed 3 days
- JH>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...
-
- JH>I am not talking about posting all of atari.archive here. I mean an
- JH>area LIKE comp.binaries.ibm.pc where an ocasional file comes by.
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- JH>Oh well. As I can see, no one here seems interested in exchanging
- JH>binaries via usenet news. I think that is too bad. If there was a
- JH>group for the exchange of binaries, then those intersted could
- JH>participate (and it might even increase the stuff availaible at the
- JH>archives [because people would copy it to the archive], and those not
- JH>interested woulden't even have to look at the news group.
-
- Lets have a vote on this, I for one would be interested in a group
- for ATARI 8 bit binaries. With the advent of OS/2 and other OS's the
- amount of traffic generated in those BINARY groups are very large
- compared to any significant traffic this new group would generate.
-
- The trouble with this idea, and if its required, who would moderate it?
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