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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Should demo versions of commercial programs be posted?
Message-ID: <857@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 18:36:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  7 18:36:39 1987
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Reply-To: rick@unix.macc.wisc.edu.UUCP (Rick Keir)
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Keywords: Judgement call

In article <2115@felix.UUCP> bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long) writes:
>
>  Should demo versions of commercial programs be posted to mod.mac.binaries?
>

You mention Jazz and Shanghai;  I would not want demos of these posted.
Lotus can market Jazz quite well, and an interested person should have
no trouble getting a demo version.  Shanghai is a game;  no matter how
much I may like it, I suspect that many site admins will object
to the cost for the posting.

On the other hand, I think that demos of things like "Design" are fine;
this is much harder to find (small company, small advertising and marketing
budget) and is certainly "work-related" for many people.

I appreciate people who post, but am worried that some postings that
are too large will cause too many sites to cut the group (*.binaries
is a favorite target in "cut the groups" arguments.)
-- 
"I'll do it -- I've got the GUTS.  I'm the PRESIDENT."
"Maybe we should take that box away from him."  "Why bother?"
Rick Keir -- one floor up from the Oyster Tank -- UWisc - Madison
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