From: michaelw@desaster.hanse.de (Michael Will) Subject: Re: comp.os.linux.binaries Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 20:49:48 GMT
sgberg@charon.bloomington.in.us (Stefan G. Berg) writes:
>> I think it's an incredibly dumb and wasteful idea, IMHO. I think the 15,000
>> or so USENET sites that are registered in the maps (many paying phone bills)
>> and the who-knows-how-many Internet sites who need cpu cycles and disk space
>> to handle the volume would think it's wasteful too.
>I agree with Vince. In general I would say it is a neat idea (look at
>alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches for example... it carries all patches for a usenet
Or even more drastical:
comp.binaries.os2
I have been following this for some months last year when I had os2 until
I dumped it in favour of linux :-)
The postet the gcc-compiler and then they postet one month later the emx-gcc.
>many are there? You want to post an update to "cat", "ls", and "cp"
>periodically? That doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
of course not, but the newest official kernel-release, some X-programs like
the latest version of XPaint (I only have a v e r y old version) and a new
version of mgetty and the like would make me very happy really.
And I cannot ftpmail them because we have a mail-limit here...
...so I have to wait until some kind soul transferes it to
germany-hamburg a n d s a y s s o .
They usualy don't...
Cheers, Michael Will
PS: The Idea of rather posting source goes with me...
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