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    On Tuesday 03 December 2002 02:49, Andrew Gierth wrote:

    > I don't personally consider that the fact that a group is gatewayed
    > from a mailing list to be significant when deciding how to apply Usenet
    > policies to it.

    Andrew, please note that I as a user of linux.kernel do actually consider it
    significant. LKML (the gated list) is not part of Usenet and the mere fact
    that at some point it is gated to a newsgroup and transported further via
    NNTP doesn't make it a part. It's merely a service to people (like me) who
    find a news interface more convenient and/or have trouble dealing with the
    large volume of messages via mail.

    Furthermore (or "that aside", if you want ... ), although I guess I could
    conceivably be sympathetic to your cause of ridding Usenet from as much
    in-appropriate content as possible, linux kernel patches, including binary
    encoded ones, are not in fact in-appropriate content for linux.kernel, either
    the list or the newsgroup.

    Even on the mailing-list plain text patches are preffered, but when the patch
    is large gzipping it is actually recommended:

    http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s4-1

    You for example today cancelled a completely appropriate post from Art Haas
    (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0212.0/0302.html) and I will
    admit that actually annoys me quite a bit.

    > Erik> The gated list is linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Cc), a list to
    > Erik> which sometimes binary patches are posted. IMHO binaries are
    > Erik> acceptable in linux.kernel.
    >
    > well, I would have to disagree (even if you don't think that binaries
    > coming via the mailing list would be a problem, there is still the
    > question of binaries posted via news

    Fortunately, linux-kernel (the list) has active filtering itself, so anything
    in-appropriate comming in through news will be filtered out in the same way
    as the ones comming in through mail. Of course that doesn't help us NNTP
    readers, but I guess we'll just have to deal with that. LKML is not strictly
    non-binary-only, so cancelling simply on the criterium of binary attachments
    is very inappropriate.

    Might I therefore respectfully suggest you keep the bin-cancelling suspended?

    Rene.

    P.S. offline for a while, so will not be able to reply quickly.
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