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From: carlp@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Carl Paukstis)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: What to do about binaries
Message-ID: <1671@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 88 21:31:22 GMT
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Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, WA
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In article <6018@megaron.arizona.edu> gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
[a fairly calm and clearly-reasoned response to a flame by a binary-hater,
then:]

> But when the same person keeps
>publishing the same misinformation, I get a little irritated.  I also
>would like to know why the guy hates binaries so much.  If they are
>costing Chuck Brunow money why doesn't he just stop carrying binaries
>and shutup?

Amen.  Mr. Brunow's ravings against binaries and shareware haven't taken up
as much bandwidth as binaries themselves have (although with the dribble
lately in c.b.i.p, it's getting close), but he's surely more irritating.

Reminds me of political theory as a whole.  Mr. Brunow represents the side
that wants (net)society to enforce some rules on everybody "for their own
good and for the good of society", while Mr. Gudeman (and myself, and many
others) would rather let (net)society "vote with their feet".  If you don't
want binaries - DON'T GET BINARIES and DON'T FEED BINARIES DOWNSTREAM.  I'm
confident that there will be enough sites still carrying binaries that
everyone who wants them can still get them.  This newsgroup does not need
endless political diatribes against them.

The business about a separate hierarchy for binaries (while not
objectionable to me) is a red herring.  A news administrator can
cut off any specific newsgroup not desired.  It might take five
minutes to run 'sed' on the active file to find out which groups have
"binar" in the name and intelligently edit that information.

I was willing to ignore the first couple tirades against net.binaries, but
Mr. Brunow is SOOO persistent...
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