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Article #4501Re: Patches online, was Re: Unix Review review of Alpha/OSF
From: Gail L. Grant
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:19
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:19
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In article <1993Jan27.003716.3226@decuac.dec.com>, rye@scmbrd.dco.dec.com (Bill Rye) writes:
|>2) I think that instead of discussing it here, we should do something about it.
|>I propose the following: Send me a mail message (since I've already marked
|>most of the news messages as read, and came into this discussion in the
|>middle,) containing the following information:
|>
|> Why DEC should post patches on the internet.
|> How all of us would benefit from this.
|> If you currently pay for telephone support how this would effect it.
|> (in other words would you drop it or continue it)
|> Your name and phone number complete with area code.
|> If internet access is refused, what other options might work.
waitaminute. this has already been done. i posted a survey on this to the
newsgroups, gathered the input and reported back up to the appropriate
people. you should be hearing something about what happened as a result of
148 out of 150 folk wanting this real soon now.
g.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!glg.ucs.dec.com!grant From: grant@glg.ucs.dec.com (Gail L. Grant) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Patches online, was Re: Unix Review review of Alpha/OSF Date: 27 Jan 1993 22:19:44 GMT Organization: poor. organization has never been one of my finer points. Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1k71q0INNce@usenet.pa.dec.com> References: <1jnl76INN62n@slab.mtholyoke.edu> <1993Jan23.123005.337@rlgsc.com> <1993Jan26.011121.21455@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan27.003716.3226@decuac.dec.com> Reply-To: grant@pa.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 16.9.64.40