rcpieter@info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr) (02/12/91)
This is the official CALL FOR *DISCUSSION* on the creation of the newsgroup comp.binaries.acorn. NAME comp.binaries.acorn - worldwide *moderated* distribution of programs (either in source or binary form) for Acorn machines (both Archimedes and BBC). MODERATION The group shall be moderated. Alan Glover (aglover@acorn.co.uk) has volunteered to be the moderator. REASON About two months ago, the newsgroup comp.sys.acorn was created. The group was (and still is) intended for the discussion of computers made by Acorn, and computers based on the Acorn RISC Machine (ARM). Right from the start, a sort-of holy war started on whether or not (large) binary and source postings should be posted to the group, or that a seperate group should be created for this purpose. Almost everyone familiar with the eunet.micro.acorn group said that posting binaries was okay since it had always been done like that. However, the number of binary/source postings in comp.sys.acorn has grown far beyond any acceptable level, and the creation of the group comp.acorn.binaries is called for. (For instance, on January 10th, my site had received 725760 bytes in comp.sys.acorn in 1991, 626355 bytes being binary postings. That is a 86 percent!) AUTHOR Tiggr (rcpieter@info.win.tue.nl)