Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!hslrswi!pan!jw
From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <396@pan.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 06:58:13 GMT
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <537@sol.warwick.ac.uk> <4521@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland
Lines: 23
Keywords: Amen

In article <4521@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>Has the first virus been transmitted by Usenet yet?  Just think, 8100
>readers of comp.binaries.ibm.pc will all be infected at once!

And every one of them deserves PRECISELY what they get...

>I don't accept or transmit the binaries newsgroups (on hoptoad), so maybe
>I don't get to vote;

Me either, but I don't appreciate having to clutter my sys file, and that
of my news feed, just to explicitly exclude them.

> but I think that rather than figuring out fancy ways
>to pass binaries around, we should just remove them from the Usenet.

This is an excellent idea.  I second the motion.

>People who want binaries can start their own alternative network (bin.xxx?)
>and waste their own bandwidth and eyewidth.

AND MONEY, in some cases.

jw