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Article #44641Re: comp.mac.binaries (should be comp.binaries.mac)
From: Edgar Knapp
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 15:55
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1990 15:55
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In article <3514@husc6.harvard.edu> kovar@popvax.harvard.edu (David C. Kovar) writes: > > I noticed that a demo of Raymond Lau's latest commerical effort is showing >up in comp.mac.binaries in ten parts. I've also noticed other people say >that their free software is stuck in the queue for comp.mac.binaries. >As much as I admire Mr. Lau's work, I wonder if it's "right" that a >demo of his commerical product takes up a lot of bandwidth in comp.mac.binaries >when there is a lot of other stuff that could be sent out. "Commerical >use of the net" is overused at times, but such demos seem to fall under >that category. Bandwidth is being used to advertise and sell a commerical >product. I could very well do completely without crippleware or commercial stuff on comp.binaries.mac. At least it should be the policy to give these postings the lowest possible priority. Edgar (knapp@cs.utexas.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!knapp From: knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: comp.mac.binaries (should be comp.binaries.mac) Summary: Crippleware: Just say no! Keywords: Crippleware, commercial stuff , comp.binaries.mac Message-ID: <7480@cs.utexas.edu> Date: 1 Jan 90 15:55:37 GMT References: <3514@husc6.harvard.edu> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 19