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From: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple Tech Notes (Apple are you listening?)
Message-ID: <99@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Dec-86 11:21:15 EST
Article-I.D.: nikhefk.99
Posted: Sat Dec 20 11:21:15 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 22:21:59 EST
References: <12263945935.96.MLY.G.POGO@OZ.AI.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser)
Organization: National Institute for Nuclear Physics; Netherlands
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In article <12263945935.96.MLY.G.POGO@OZ.AI.MIT.EDU> Mly.G.Pogo%OZ.AI.MIT.EDU@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Soron) writes:
>
>You folks are either missing or ignoring an important point. Mac tech
>notes are not posted to the net. They are put in the directory at Sumex-Aim,
>where they are available to anyone who wants them without clogging the
>nets up with a substantial amount of needless text.  I am receiving them,
>even though I don't want them; this is therefore unwanted traffic on the
>nets and unwanted junk in my mail file and disk space allotment here. But
>if I don't want to receive them, I'd have to leave the Info-Apple mailing
>list.
>
>Are the people who voted to send the tech notes out on the nets to
>everyone actually developers? Or is it just curiosity that'll fade
>after a week or two? Is their interest so urgent that they can't
>take the time to FTP them from a directory?
>
>Bob
>
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What Bob forgets, is that not everyone has access to SUMEX-AIM, not can
everyone FTP. If you are not on ARPA, but on Usenet, you cannot FTP.

I am on Usenet, therefore I want them posted on Usenet. If the general feeling
is *not* to post them, maybe Bob would like to mail them to me?

Another thing Bob mentions, is that the MacTechNotes are not posted. This is
not true. I have seen almost all MacTechnotes posted on the Net, not by Apple
but by a friendly user who was kind enough to share with those of us who can't
FTP.

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