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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
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 15:19:37 1984
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Organization: Storage Technology Corp.  Louisville, CO
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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