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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Easy way to remove binary groups
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Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 01:01:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 27 01:01:56 1987
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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?
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