Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ptsfa!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Easy way to remove binary groups Message-ID: <2524@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 01:01:56 EDT Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2524 Posted: Mon Jul 27 01:01:56 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 00:37:00 EDT References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <8225@utzoo.UUCP> <272@brandx.rutgers.edu> <3592@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 25 Xref: mnetor news.admin:730 news.groups:1291 Just ask your news feed(s) to stop forwarding them. Remove them from your active file. rm -rf /usr/spool/news/comp/binaries. I did it and it worked (almost). Occasionally I have to flame somebody who posts a binary to some other newsgroup (comp.text.desktop was the most recent) but for the most part people put things where they belong. In the jobs world it's called "voting with your feet". The nice part is that, even if the rest of the Usenet continues to have problems with binaries, YOU won't...and if enough people agree with you, the whole problem will go away. E.g. the people who want binaries will pay for moving them, and the ones who don't, will opt out. This is sort of an inverse "alt" guerilla effort. In "alt" the point was to be able to carry groups that the backbone wouldn't carry. Here the point is to NOT carry groups that they do carry. Who runs your machine anyway, you or them, answer yes or no... :-)) John PS: Webber's offer sounds magnificent to me. The guys who are complaining that it doesn't have libraries, ANSI, etc...why don't YOU contribute something to the effort? -- {dasys1,ncoast,well,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@postgres.berkeley.edu Alt.all: the alternative radio of the Usenet.