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How long has the binaries been bad. I know it happen a few times a year. seems like a long time this time?

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Qboom

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May 3, 2004, 7:03:25 PM5/3/04
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Stephen

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May 3, 2004, 10:45:41 PM5/3/04
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You're falsely assuming that they were ever good...

Agent_C

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May 3, 2004, 11:19:41 PM5/3/04
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On Tue, 04 May 2004 02:45:41 GMT, Stephen
<stephen2002{NOSPAM}@lurker.homeip.net> wrote:

>You're falsely assuming that they were ever good...

Which makes all this incessant bickering all the more ridiculous...

A_C


Qboom

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May 4, 2004, 10:04:42 AM5/4/04
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Its been good,
Just can't remeber when.

On Tue, 04 May 2004 02:45:41 GMT, Stephen
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Maarten Andriessen

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May 4, 2004, 1:55:20 PM5/4/04
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Use groups.google.com on this newsgroup, and you can see that people already
complained from the 1st month this group was archived, which was in May
2001. The "problem" however, is much older.

I can't believe that there are still people sticking with it and believe it
will all magically be solved one day :) I guess it will be, when the
re-write the Usenet protocol.

Maarten


Maarten Andriessen

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May 4, 2004, 1:58:05 PM5/4/04
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> You're falsely assuming that they were ever good...

Oh they were! When a full game fitted on a single floppy disk, when MP3 was
a term nobody had heard of yet, and DVD was something they heard about on
tech shows and how it would be market ready one day. When a wallpaper was
256 colors and 640x480 at the most. Thats when binaries still worked......

Maarten


Leythos

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May 4, 2004, 2:15:35 PM5/4/04
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In article <NQQlc.11$qn6...@twister.socal.rr.com>,
nos...@nospam.dutchusa.com says...

I can remember back in the late 80's when there were a few binary groups
that contained SCIFI images that maintained a high completion rate, but
as of the mid 90's there just seems to be to many problems most times.

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Maarten Andriessen

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May 5, 2004, 10:33:22 AM5/5/04
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> I can remember back in the late 80's when there were a few binary groups
> that contained SCIFI images that maintained a high completion rate, but
> as of the mid 90's there just seems to be to many problems most times.

And the mid 90's introduced MP3, and software/games that fit on a full
CD-Rom. The late 90's introduces movies in DivX format.

In the mid 90's everybody started to get on the Internet, and in the late
90's everybody's brother and mother in-law got on the net.

The usnet protocol however.... never changed. Neither did TCP/IP of course,
nor SMTP, or other protocols, but those were written differently in the
first place of course :)

Maarten


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