Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kraut From: kraut@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: How to get sources without having ftp! Message-ID: <6948@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 03:20:10 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.6948 Posted: Fri Nov 27 03:20:10 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 19:34:01 EST References: <32159@auc.UUCP> Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 19 Summary: best way to get public domain software is to join a users-group In article <32159@auc.UUCP>, gibsond@auc.UUCP (Daniel Gibson ) writes: > I wish to aquire some of the public domain sources out there ... > cannot just "ftp" and enjoy these wonderous things. best way to keep informed and get your PD-software nicely organized and documented is to join your local or a national users-group, like the one in Boston, Berkeley, NY, DC, ... just to name a few good ones ... the time spent on FTPing and downloading should be worth more to you than the cost of membership and club-disks .... mine is, anyway ... BTW, regarding the recent comments on how worthless MacWorld, MacUser, etc really are, the newsletters and other publications available from user-groups are really worth considering as substitute-reading ... -- werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (prefered address) kraut@ut-ngp.uucp (if you must)