BERNARDO@TMASL.EXXON.COM (MARCELINO BERNARDO) (06/21/89)
On 12 Jun 89 13:18:31 GMT, mcvax!inria!laas!nastassia!ralph@uunet.uu.net (Ralph-P. Sobek) writes: ] ]In article <21754@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> stowe@silver.bacs.indiana.edu ](Fox in Sox, Fox in Box, etc.) writes: ]| In article <890606.08402734.007881@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET ](Z4648252) writes: ]| > Probably because for half the netters here, it is impossible to ]| >either receive the files (I've requested from Canada several times ]| >and have yet to receive a file) due to the routing (comp.sources.atari.st ]| >is an "illegal syntax" for our system) or files that are received just ]| >don't decode right. ]| ]| Regardless of the problem or the size of the sources/executables, ]| this is still an inappropriate newsgroup for such postings. You are ]| welcome to your opinion, however wrong it may be. ]| ]| [lot's of blank lines deleted :-)] ] ]Well, the USENET news folks are forgetting something. They are not ]alone out there in World Net!! Some people subscribe to ARPA mailing ]lists, some to BITNET news/mailing servers. ] ]Both of these services are gatewayed with the corresponding ]newsgroups; just look in news.lists about mailing lists. For the ]people on these alternate networks, this is the only means to ]communicate source/binary code. And it is perfectly correct. Not to ]mention the concomitant problem of finding accessible archive servers, ]etc. I live in BITNET and I can access a number of servers. I've used archive-server@ssyx.ucsc.edu, atarinet and canada01. ] rest of the stuff deleted Marcelino Bernardo bernardo@erevax.bitnet (Please ignore the address above)