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Re: Norton Utilities

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From: Tim Maroney
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 1990 19:28
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rk39+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Joseph Kuszewski) writes:
>>According to this week's issue of InfoWorld, Norton Utilities for the
>>Macintosh will NEVER be released.  The article went on to say that the "best
>>features" of Norton Utils for the Mac will be integrated into the next
>>release of SUM. 

In article <1990Jul19.044510.17461@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell) writes:
>This is completely wrong.  The product will be shipped just as soon as all of
>show-stopper bugs have been removed.
>
>If people who had no information to provide, but were merely making up
>factoids, were barred from Usenet, the net would have about 1% the bandwidth
>of today.  This is one of the factoids that would be removed.

This is far too harsh a denunciation of someone who is merely repeating
an inaccurate press report.
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From: tim@efi.com (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: Norton Utilities
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Date: 20 Jul 90 19:28:16 GMT
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