Xref: utzoo alt.config:454 comp.sys.cbm:1597 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!decwrl!purdue!umd5!umbc3!pete From: pete@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Pete Hsi ) Newsgroups: alt.config,comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: comp.binaries.cbm and comp.sources.cbm (and maybe alt.whatever) Message-ID: <1085@umbc3.UMD.EDU> Date: 17 Jul 88 00:22:51 GMT References: <7377@j.cc.purdue.edu> <4855@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: pete@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Pete Hsi (C)) Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lines: 47 In article <4855@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >I think that users' groups and such are a more appropriate >mechanism for distributing Commodore 8-bit software. True, but I got more useful stuff from this net than from my user's group AND for machines besides my own. Besides that, I saw and have heard of illegal software copying going on at these groups... heavens, you don't want to promote that, do you? At least here on the nets, there is a way to moderate such activities (well, at least shame 'em). >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 beg your pardon, this is not a flame but can you please define "our network" and "We"? Somehow, that paragraph didn't rub me the right way (and by reading other follow up articles, I think you offended others as well). >A sources group for 6502-based software would likely be mostly >assembler language or BASIC programs, which are not likely to be useful >anyway. That's a two edged sword, friend. I don't find programs for other machines particularly useful either but they still do clutter up "our network". > (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.) Agreed! As a supporter for a 8-bit CBM binary or source group, I am not saying to create a newsgroup for every machine available. Rather, I am saying to create them as the need arises and it "done did" for 8-bit Commodore machines. Let me say this as nice as possible: John, your posting strikes me as elitist and selfish. Just because you do not find a newsgroup personally useful doesn't mean you have to be against it. Remember, you are not the sole user of this net. --Pete Hsi Univ of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC = "U Must Be Crazee" :-) Internet/ARPA: pete@umbc3.umd.edu -or- pete@umbc2.umd.edu Bitnet: pete@umbc "Cobol is a virus from outer space"