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Article #770Re: UUDECODE GAMBYT01.ZIP?
From: rdip... Ron Dippold
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 01:49
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 01:49
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ro...@kaos.ingr.com (Ross Erickson) writes: >I'm not sure I'm qualified to comment on this too much (perhaps the >net gods can jump in here), but is there a bandwidth problem by >posting a 300+Kbyte .zip file on the net? I'd be more than happy to >comply, but wasn't sure if it is "appropriate". >Mr. Dippold, can you jump in here and take this one? Please advise >about this for future issues. I'd be more than happy to do this, but >don't know if it's frowned upon or not. Here I is! Posting large binaries to the net in normal groups is very much frowned on. That's what the binaries groups are for. I would suggest that you submit it to comp.sys.binaries.ibm.pc, which is there for just such a a purpose. In fact, I should have suggested that much earlier... that'll get you lots of distribution. Or I can do that, just say the woid. -- Voila! It's no longer water, it's wine. Hey, I don't need all of you to believe me, just twelve of you.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!network.ucsd.edu!qualcom.qualcomm.com!cancun!rdippold From: rdip...@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Subject: Re: UUDECODE GAMBYT01.ZIP? Message-ID: <rdippold.706412987@cancun> Date: 21 May 92 01:49:47 GMT Article-I.D.: cancun.rdippold.706412987 References: <167ECF555.WCHE@vm.poly.edu> <1992May20.165824.6767@spm.b23a.ingr.com> Sender: ne...@qualcomm.com Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: cancun.qualcomm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit