🚀 go-pugleaf

In mail to me, John Buck (polyof!john) has pointed out to me that my
last article was a flame and devoid of any useful information.  I will
concede the first point, but deny the second.  To readers of this
newsgroup that feel the same way as Mr. Buck, I hereby apologize for
the inflamatory nature of my last submission.

In his letter, it was pointed out to me that, even at the 10 minutes per
tape that I estimated, it would take a significant amount of Peter Langston's
time to write a large number of tapes.  This is, of course, true.  My points
are as follows.

1)  Mr. Langston volunteered to write tapes of his games libary
    to readers of this newsgroup.  If he is unable to meet that
    voluntary commitment because of the sheer volume of response,
    or for some other reason, I think it is proper he should
    announce such to this newsgroup, or at least to those people
    (myself included) that sent him blank tapes.

2)  I have no evidence whatsoever that Mr. Langston has made an
    attempt to write ANY tapes.  Although I received only a few
    letters in response to my original query, and there was only
    one other posting (that I saw), they were ALL negative.  That
    is, no one that sent him a tape has received one back.

3)  I stand by my opinion that it is bad practice to distribute
    a binary-only program while refusing to support same.

4)  I've been reading this newsgroup for more than two years, and
    periodically the same discussion comes up (which is virtually
    the only traffic in this group).  The discussion goes something
    like this:

    Q.  Where can I get the source to empire?
    A.  Can't get source, only binary, might try psl,
        better, get it from somebody else that has it.
    Q.  My empire binary has many bugs and is no fun anymore.
    A.  That's because there is no support.
    Q.  How come?  <along with various mild flaming>
    A.  Speculation about psl's schedule.  <along with reprimands>

    That is usually the course of the discussion.  It never seems to
    get beyond that.  I propose that this newsgroup be removed.

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||  Gregory M. Paris                                                        ||
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