Path: utzoo!mnetor!spectrix!yunexus!ists!mike
From: mike@ists (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <201@ists>
Date: 7 May 88 22:32:37 GMT
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <537@sol.warwick.ac.uk> <4521@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
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Summary: positive side effect

In article <4521@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> I don't accept or transmit the binaries newsgroups (on hoptoad), so maybe
> I don't get to vote; but I think that rather than figuring out fancy ways
> to pass binaries around, we should just remove them from the Usenet.

I know that many in the amiga, mac and PC worlds would scream, but it
might force a really postive change in those worlds: good C compilers.
Maybe it would help get good ANSI C compilers written and sold.

> "Use the Source, Luke...."

hysterical !
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