ack@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Andy J. Williams) (04/23/88)
[ The usual line eater joke has been replaced with a boring line. ] This is a semi-serious proposal for a newsgroup. So much of the traffic of this group is questions about missing binaries parts and how do I ftp this or download that or unbinhex this or unpit that... what if there was another group called something like comp.binaries.mac.query where all such requests can be posted and keep comp.sys.mac from being the place where we all talk about how to handle certain binaries. I have not been paying attention to net newsgroup creation methods or criteria, but maybe someone with more experience can tell me if this is a crazy idea. -Andy Just say WAFNA! -- Andy J. Williams '90 |Ack Systems: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu| _ /| Software Development +--------------------------------------+ \`o_O' ACK! Kiewit Computation Center|Hello. My $NAME is ~inigo_montoya. | ( ) / Dartmouth College |You killed my process. Prepare to vi.| U
rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K. Shull) (04/25/88)
In article <8735@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu.Dartmouth.EDU (Andy J. Williams) writes: >what if there was another group called something like >comp.binaries.mac.query The IBM PC'ers just voted in comp.binaries.ibm-pc.d (or whatever the binary discussion group is going to be called), so there's precedent :-) If anybody is interested, I'll take a vote. I'm getting tired of wading through this stuff too. We could also discuss problems, patches, etc. for the posted programs (like the Risk patch that came through a few weeks ago). It might also be a good place to put all of these virus discussions. :-) Robert -- Robert K. Shull University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network ihnp4!occrsh!uokmax!rob CIS 73765,1254 Delphi RKSHULL Opinions contained herein in no way reflect those of the University of Oklahoma.
syap@ur-tut (James Fitzwilliam) (04/26/88)
In article <8735@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu.Dartmouth.EDU (Andy J. Williams) writes:
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*where all such requests can be posted and keep comp.sys.mac from being the
How about "comp.binaries.repost" -- both the requests and sections needing
reposting could go there. (I'm thinking of the ones like Risk Part 3 that
made it nowhere in one piece...) I made the mistake of waiting for Risk 3
to be reposted while I went out of town, and needless to say it never hap-
pened! (Don't bother sending it to me now, I finally tossed the remainder. :)
James
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