Re: uunet as a contact for the LPF smacks of favoritism.

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From: Mike Stump
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 11:20

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In article <hjbD3LJ5G.BDp@netcom.com>, Hwa-Jin Bae <hjb@netcom.com> wrote:
>In article <robertl.792007755@amsg>, Robert Lipe <robertl@arnet.com> wrote:
>when a stable quarterly release is made to cygnus own customers the
>same release should also be made available to non-customers at the same
>time.

It is.

>this is a matter of policy, not of mechanism.

It is a matter of policy.

>if the policy is against the distribution at the same time,

It isn't.

>mechanisms do not matter.  according to cygnus' own people, some
>software they work on are made available to the net first (despite
>the claims in their own marketing literature), while some are never
>made available to the public.

Simple misunderstanding.  Everything is made available to the public.

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Subject: Re: uunet as a contact for the LPF smacks of favoritism.
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