Let me offer some hopefully useful information about distributing material as binary postings on the Usenet news. First of all this should not be taken as a recrimination against any individual poster of binaries to a discussion newsgroup, but rather as a reminder to all of us of the potential problems involved. Because this information is at the same time intended to help the well-meaning posters of binaries, there are pointers at the end of this item on how to make your binary available in the proper way. If someone sees these things differently, ok, but please note that I would rather not get flaming, indignant arguments crashing in over this issue. I'd prefer not to waste the time with the bickering.
All civilized views are naturally always welcome.
The best place to debate the issue is news.admin.net-abuse.usenet . Also please note that it does not make a decisive difference whether these postings in fact just contain sources and no executables. The same applies whether the binary posting is a short or a long one. I know and understand that most of who do this mean well, and wish to contribute to the general usefulness of the Usenet news. We all appreciate that.