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