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Re: Posting of PD and Shareware

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From: MITCHELL
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1986 14:45
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> Since I posted the FASTIMES disk caching utility, I received a lot of positive
> e-mail.  I would like to post other utilities (ususally without source code), 
> but I am unsure as to the netiquette regarding the posting of materials like 
> this.  Of course all the material I would post would be in the public domain or
> Shareware.  The questions I have are:
> 1) Should DOS utilities be posted here or on another part of the net?
> 2) Is this acceptable practice for the net?
> 3) Is anyone interested in obtaining my favorite DOS utilities?
> 4) How come Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes looks the same now as he did in 1957?
> 
> If I get a positive response on the first three questions, I will post a 
> nice PROKEY-like utility almost immediately.
> 
> 
> Mike Bruno
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
> Arpanet: mjb224%uiucuxf@a.cs.uiuc.edu
> Csnet:   mjb224%uiucuxf@uiuc.csnet
> Bitnet:  mjb224@uiucuxf
> UUCP:    {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucd********* Only through December of 1986 **********************
I would be more than happy to obtain source of your utilities however,
I think program sources should be posted in "net.sources".  This assumption
might be wrong because if most people like your utilities I doubt that
they would complain
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From: cdl@aluxs.UUCP (MITCHELL)
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Subject: Re: Posting of PD and Shareware
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Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 10:45:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  6 10:45:16 1986
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