Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!nikhefk!keeshu 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 Lines: 38 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 > >------- 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. -- | Kees Huyser | UUCP : keeshu@nikhefk.uucp or : {[wherever]!seismo}!mcvax!nikhefk!keeshu | BITNET : U00212@hasara5.bitnet | FIDO via unix : {decvax}!vaxine!spark!500!11!kees_huyser | FIDO via fido : kees huyser at net 500 node 11