Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!rutgers!bellcore!wind!tr From: tr@wind.bellcore.com (tom reingold) Newsgroups: alt.sources Subject: Re: Here it is -- CHAT V1.7 Message-ID: <4309@bellcore.bellcore.com> Date: 16 Dec 87 13:14:22 GMT References: <417@ddsw1.UUCP> <262@papaya.bbn.com> Sender: news@bellcore.bellcore.com Reply-To: tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, Noo Joizy Lines: 23 In article <262@papaya.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: $ Guess the author(s) have no conscience, or they'd be bothered by the $ fact that they are using other people's modems and phone bills to make $ money. $ $ And just to make this posting more than a snipe attack, let me point out $ that there are three SysV chat programs in the FREE comp.sources.unix $ archives -- via pipes, via fifo's. Contact your nearest archive site, $ or e-mail me for a list of them. $ /r$ $ -- $ For comp.sources.unix stuff, mail to sources@uunet.uu.net. If you want to plug the software you distribute, then why do you want to question the morality of software with the same function? Just because it is shareware doesn't it make it more wasteful of modems and phone bills. Besides, not everyone logged in to systems are in through phone lines. Tom Reingold INTERNET: tr@bellcore.bellcore.com Bell Communications Research UUCP: rutgers!bellcore!tr 435 South St room 2L350 SOUNDNET: (201) 829-4622 [work] Morristown, NJ 07960 (201) 287-2345 [home]