Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!yale!husc6!ut-sally!brian From: brian@ut-sally.UUCP (Brian H. Powell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple Tech Notes (Apple are you listening?) Message-ID: <6624@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 15:30:06 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.6624 Posted: Fri Dec 19 15:30:06 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 02:03:38 EST References: <12263945935.96.MLY.G.POGO@OZ.AI.MIT.EDU> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 33 Summary: mac tn's ARE posted In article <12263945935.96.MLY.G.POGO@OZ.AI.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, Not only are the technotes available for ftp, they are also posted to mod.mac.binaries. So, they ARE posted to USENET. > Are the people who voted to send the tech notes out on the nets to > everyone actually developers? That may depend on how you define "developer". Most are probably not full-time developers with products on or destined for the market. One of the neat features about computers, especially the Apple ][ series, is that users can program the machine. Therefore, many usenet users are apple ][ programmers. > Is their interest so urgent that they can't > take the time to FTP them from a directory? You and I are fortunate to have ARPA access. There are many more users on usenet that don't have ARPA access. It's not that we would be inconveniencing the usenet user; we would be excluding him/her. I think the tech notes should be posted somewhere, either here or in a new, moderated newsgroup. Brian H. Powell UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!brian ARPA: brian@sally.UTEXAS.EDU _Work_ _Not Work_ Department of Computer Sciences P.O. Box 5899 Taylor Hall 2.124 Austin, TX 78763-5899 The University of Texas at Austin (512) 346-0835 Austin, TX 78712-1188 (512) 471-9536