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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.news.config,net.news.group,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: FLAME Re: Net.*SOURCES*.mac
Message-ID: <6134@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 11:56:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 11:56:07 1985
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> And the sources are only directly usable by an ever smaller percentage:
> those who are Macintosh owners who have a particular compiler.  ...

But indirectly usable by a much larger community, potentially at least.
That was the point.  Mac binaries are useless to non-Mac people.

> ...  I thought net.sources.***MAC*** was for ***MAC*** users...

Just how many Mac users are helping to pay for it?

> ...If you're not
> interested in Mac stuff, stay the hell out of net.micro.***MAC*** and
> net.sources.***MAC***, and then the ***MAC*** stuff won't bother you.

I read neither group, but whenever I get utzoo's phone bills I am all too
fully aware of their existence.  Sorry, ignoring it won't make it go away.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry