boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator) (07/03/88)
I cannot see any reason for creating the proposed bin.net. If anything, it
will start separating Usenet into chunks, creating confusion rather than
lower phone bills. Besides, check out the latest Arbitron reports.
copm.binaries groups account for a small percentage of net traffic now,
unlike previous months. The moderation of comp.binaries.ibm.pc has helped
considerably, as it no longer appears at the top of the lists (which had put
it at the top of several people's hit lists as well). The moderation is
going very well, keeping the traffic low.
If you're still going to argue about the traffic, apply your arguments to
ALL groups, not just the binaries groups, or any group you don't like. After
the 38 part posting of mahjongg in comp.sources.games, which was useful only
for Suns, I don't see anybody arguing for a sources.net...
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Brian O'Neill, MS-DOS Software Exchange Coordinator
ArpaNet: boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu
UUCP : {(backbones),harvard,mit-eddie,et. al.}!ulowell!hawk!boneillsimcha@humming.UUCP (Simcha Lerner) (07/06/88)
Regarding creating a new bin distribution: In article <11440@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: > > I hate to see the net fragmented so... I guess that's one way of >killing it >-- > bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) > {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen I agree! If the backbone sites don't want to carry binaries, they ALREADY have the ability to kill them off individually. Let's not start up a whole bunch of little subnets - either a news group is acceptable to those who pay the bills (and acceptability criteria may include both content and volume restrictions) or it isn't. If the backbone sites serve notice that binaries are to be shut down, then (and only then) would it make sense to look into forming an alternate net. And if we do get shut down, let's hook in under the alts distribution, and NOT start YAASD (yet another alts distribution system)! Simcha Lerner ...(harvard | talcott)!humming!simcha as always, my opinions are my own...(does my boss really check to see if I post a disclaimer?)