Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!voder!pyramid!prls!philabs!micomvax!ray From: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: INFO-MICRO Digest V88 #155 Message-ID: <1287@micomvax.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 19:34:23 GMT References: <880918034616.00001060061@cim-vax.HONEYWELL.COM> Reply-To: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. (TDS - Montreal) St. Laurent QC, Canada Lines: 46 In article <880918034616.00001060061@cim-vax.HONEYWELL.COM> postmaster@CIM-VAX.HONEYWELL.COM writes: >From : INFO-MICRO@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL .... >INFO-MICRO Digest Sun, 18 Sep 88 Volume 88 : Issue 155 .... >Today's Topics: > Info on new public domain archiving system > New public domain archiving system development >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1988 17:54 MDT >From: Keith Petersen>Subject: Info on new public domain archiving system > >Captured from the Exec-PC Business Board 414/964-5160 > > conf: FILE COMPRESSION FORUM #1612 08-31-88 20:06 > from: PHIL KATZ >subject: PLANS > >Well, I think it's a little to early for an official product >announcement or anything... > .... > [hundreds of lines of a bbs "conversation" deleted] Well, I may be somewhat cynical, but I just did *not* believe that that was a true bbs conversation between Katz and co. and others. It was too smooth. It read too much like a piece of marketing hype. It oozed Madison Ave "Well Phil, I glad you asked that....." Read it again folks - WASN'T THIS A CON?? - IS SOMEONE BEING A SLIMEBALL?? - IF SO WHOM?? (I'd be pleased to be persuaded otherwise!) -- Ray Dunn. | UUCP: ..!philabs!micomvax!ray Philips Electronics Ltd. | TEL : (514) 744-8200 Ext: 2347 600 Dr Frederik Philips Blvd | FAX : (514) 744-6455 St Laurent. Quebec. H4M 2S9 | TLX : 05-824090