Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cbdkc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!cbdkc1!gwe From: gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart x4021 CB 3D288 WDS ) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.news,net.news.group Subject: Source VS binhex ... Message-ID: <1212@cbdkc1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 20:51:55 EST Article-I.D.: cbdkc1.1212 Posted: Tue Nov 12 20:51:55 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 21:21:28 EST Reply-To: gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart x4021 CB 3D288 WDS ) Followup-To: net.news,net.news.group Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 31 Xref: watmath net.micro.mac:3413 net.news:4341 net.news.group:4489 [ this line must be converted with a grain of salt! ] I just noticed a curious thing! A Desk Accessory sampler application was recently posted to the net on net.sources.mac. The posting contained full source and a Binhex copy of the final application. The sizes of the files are as follows: lines words chars filename 193 686 4363 Sampler.R - source for resource compiler 443 1706 12687 Sampler.c - source for Megamax C 102 105 6303 Sampler.hqx - BINHEX of final application The two source files total 17050 characters and the single BINHEX file totals 6303. I believe that most of you will agree that a binary is *usually* smaller than all of the source that it takes to produce it. Just think, if someone had posted the Dungeons Of Doom game as full source, the game would have taken the better portion of a meg of bandwidth. Plus, in the case of the DA sampler above, those without Megamax C can benefit from the posting. I don't think that BINHEXing is the problem, the problem is the volume of postings is way too high! To solve that problem, I would look to the use of a moderated group rather than an open forum as we have now. Personally, I like NSM the way it is now, but if the backbone sites kill it, I would still like to see a moderated group with perhaps a volume quota for the # of kbytes per month that could be posted by the moderator. What do you think? -- George Erhart at AT&T Bell Laboratories Columbus, Ohio 614-860-4021 {ihnp4,cbosgd}!cbdkc1!gwe