Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecn-pc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!ecn-pc!mdm From: mdm@ecn-pc.UUCP (Mike D McEvoy) Newsgroups: net.news,net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Cleaning up net.sources.mac Message-ID: <412@ecn-pc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 17:00:56 EST Article-I.D.: ecn-pc.412 Posted: Thu Oct 31 17:00:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 03:33:40 EST References: <8965@ritcv.UUCP> <1236@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Reply-To: mdm@ecn-pc.UUCP (Mike D McEvoy) Organization: Cybotech Product Development Lab Lines: 36 Xref: watmath net.news:4203 net.micro.mac:3219 Summary: In article <1236@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (JB) writes: > > >Well, how do you justify providing net.sources.* at all? Why do you >subscribe to it? Isn't it because you have users who Want access to the >programs that get posted to it? These are NOT rhetorical questions - I >really want an answer. > >Your major complaint seems to be that someone's getting something for >free from net.sources. Beth, I don't think you went far enough. The fact is we all derive a great deal of benifit from the nets. Besides using net.sources.mac, I use them to get information that is CRITICAL in the product development decision making cycle that I could not get easily any other way. If we start throwing rocks at shareware on the net, we'd better be prepared to take a look at the whole net concept. We are all receiving a rather big free-bee here. I think a great deal of the complaining is because this high level of share and free ware is not directly used by the those who are bitching the loudest. Still, it it obvious by the net discussions that it sure as hell is important to a large number of users. We could run a little experiment. Let's have a few brave souls kill the mac nets on their machines and see how long it takes before some torqued off user pours a can of coke (classic, of course) on their keyboards. Big Mac 317-497-0509 "One man's share ware is another man's random number"