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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Sources in text mode please
Message-ID: <52742@sun.uucp>
Date: 10 May 88 22:29:00 GMT
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Keywords: No Zoo, No ARC, shar only thank you.

Pat, if my mail message didn't get through to you please let me 
reiterate. My feeling is that the source news groups are for sources
and zoo archives are binaries period. Some P, CP (Point, Counter Point)

P: Sources are big and often don't come to us as shar files.
CP: True, this is why they have their own group and are moderated. If you
    put them into some encoded binary format over half your "customers" will
    no longer be able to use them.

P: Using zoo increases reliability.
CP: Baloney, when unsharing source code, if I get an error I can often correct
    the line noise in the source and recompile. In an archive file the whole
    file is often irretriveably blown away.

There are more, but this is not meant to be a flame, just a _vigorous_ request
that the sources groups remain 'human readable' thank you.


--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.