Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site stcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!stcvax!lat From: lat@stcvax.UUCP (Larry Tepper) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: satellite netnews costs Message-ID: <340@stcvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 15:19:37 EST Article-I.D.: stcvax.340 Posted: Fri Dec 14 15:19:37 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 05:21:31 EST References: <466@vortex.UUCP> Organization: Storage Technology Corp. Louisville, CO Lines: 31 I can't figure out how it's so easy for people to misunderstand what seem to me to be straight-forward postings on the net. Anyone who's developed even a medium-sized software system (say 10,000 lines) knows that the amount of time and effort is enormous to get such a system working reasonably well. Remember how much time it took to get your first homework programs to work? I know that alot of you on the net are not programmers or engineers, but (since you are reading this via a computer) you probably know some of them, eh? Perhaps you could ask them how easy it is to get something like this going. Ask a EE how simple it is to get one PC board up and running in a system. Go ahead, make my day... Lauren's made it quite clear on numerous occasions that the work he and others are doing is volunteer time. Every time I see a posting on the net asking for volunteers to work on something like this project, or the Usenet map, or the next release of news, whatever, I start thinking how I'd like to help. Then I remember how little free time I already have, how I'm married and time spent with my wife is already very precious, there's all the reading I need to do just to keep current in my profession (or at least to familiarize myself with all the latest buzz words) not to mention recreation time. We've got a house to keep up too. And on, and on. Three cheers to those who have made the time to keep the net going and growing. -- One of the survivors... {ihnp4 hao philabs sdcrdcf ucbvax!nbires}!stcvax!lat Larry Tepper Storage Technology, MD-3T, Louisville, CO 80028 303-673-5435