urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) (03/19/86)
I am not a network official. I am just a tyro users, one individual but please hearken to my plea. I plead with you not to post uuencoded binaries to net.sources. Please post only human readable sources to that collection. The only allowable exception that I can see would be for binary data! in a standardized interchange format, e.g. an IFF encoded picture file, or machine independant initialization data for a posted program. Machine specific encryptions should be confined to the newsgroup/list devoted to that hardware.
jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) (03/21/86)
In article <1293@ecsvax.UUCP> urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes: > >I am not a network official. I am just a tyro users, one individual >but please hearken to my plea. > >I plead with you not to post uuencoded binaries to net.sources. >Please post only human readable sources to that collection. The >only allowable exception that I can see would be for binary data! >in a standardized interchange format, e.g. an IFF encoded picture >file, or machine independant initialization data for a posted >program. Machine specific encryptions should be confined to the >newsgroup/list devoted to that hardware. Interesting.... A year ago the "newsgroup/list devoted to the hardware" net.micro.mac threw out mac sources and binaries and CREATED net sources.mac. Now, along people come..... It's an old story. -- Jim Budler Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (408) 749-5806 Usenet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb Compuserve: 72415,1200