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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
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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"