campbell@maynard.UUCP (05/28/87)
In article <5164@necntc.NEC.COM> jeff@necntc.NEC.COM (Jeff Janock) writes:
]
] In article <922@maynard.BSW.COM> I wrote:
] ] I, also, was annoyed to have spent real money and tied up valuable
] ] disk space for binaries for a machine I don't even own...
]
] This is a very narrow view of things - you are not forced to accept
] any and all news groups that exist; that is what the backbones are
] there for. Ask you feeds not to transmit the binary groups and
] your 'gripe' is mute...
You're forgetting that the original posting about which we complained
was in comp.SOURCES.misc. If it was in a binaries only newsgroup I
wouldn't have minded, since we junk those groups.
Maybe we need a comp.binaries.ibmpc?
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