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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Available CD-ROMs for Macintosh
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Date: 13 Jun 89 15:29:43 GMT
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In article <2349@internal.Apple.COM> blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel) writes:
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>Boston Computer Society, Berkeley Mac User's Group(BMUG), and Educorp all 
>sell CD-ROMs that have the typical selections of public-domain and 
>shareware (aka "virusware") stuff. 
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>--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"

Both BMUG and BCS have gone to great pains to ensure that the contents
of their respective CDs are free of viruses.  I don't have even a tenuous
connection with Educorp, so I can't vouch for their disk, but I would
assume until I heard otherwise that they were similarly careful.

A clean CD-ROM is probably the *best* place to obtain publically
distributable software.  On the other hand, the quality control
and mastering routines BMUG goes through in producing PD floppies
essentially eliminates the possibility of known viruses sneaking through
that medium.  And since we're among the first to hear about new viruses,
we're quite adept at preventing their spread.

For a review of some CD-ROMs containing publically distributable software,
see the latest issue of MacUser.

John Heckendorn
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