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Re: Norton Utilities

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From: Alex Pournelle
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 1990 03:32
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tim@efi.com (Tim Maroney) writes:

>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.

Agreed, and I apologize again.

	Alex
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From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
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Subject: Re: Norton Utilities
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Date: 25 Jul 90 03:32:29 GMT
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