Xref: utzoo alt.config:403 comp.sys.cbm:1581 Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!mnetor!cxsea!ssc-vax!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hoptoad!gnu 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 Lines: 18 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"