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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: alt.config,comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: comp.binaries.cbm and comp.sources.cbm (and maybe alt.whatever)
Message-ID: <4855@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 13 Jul 88 14:44:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.4855
References: <7377@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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I think that users' groups and such are a more appropriate
mechanism for distributing Commodore 8-bit software.  You are
welcome to set up your own network of 8-bit micros calling each
other on the phone, but please don't sent it through our network
at our expense.  We will even give you all our freely available
C language software for modem communications, netnews, and such, if
you can make it run on your machines.

I would refuse any alt.binaries groups immediately.

A sources group for 6502-based software would likely be mostly
assembler language or BASIC programs, which are not likely to be useful
anyway.  (A major reason that I like sources is that I can port them to
my system even if they didn't originally run on it.)
-- 
John Gilmore    {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,amdahl}!hoptoad!gnu    gnu@toad.com
      "And if there's danger don't you try to overlook it,
       Because you knew the job was dangerous when you took it"