Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!skep2!wcs From: wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.[ho95c]) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: bin.net Message-ID: <183@skep2.ATT.COM> Date: 7 Jul 88 17:36:42 GMT References: <6062@megaron.arizona.edu> <8828@netsys.UUCP> Reply-To: wcs@skep2.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.[ho95c],2G218,x0705,) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs Center 4632, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 16 It's not necessary to create a new high-level network to support binaries! If you don't want them, just have your newsfeeds put !comp.binaries.all in their sys files for you, and you won't be bothered. Or put it in your outgoing newsfeeds and you at least won't pay for distributing it outgoing. What's the advantage of this approach? - creating a new high-level takes a long time to get good propagation. - most sites already carry comp.binaries, and many people use them. - only the people who don't want them have to do anything, and many already have. - the net is fragmented enough - let's not increase it. -- # Thanks; # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs