Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!cbnewsd!bird
From: bird@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (j.l.walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: A Shrinkit(tm) reply..
Message-ID: <2510@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Oct 89 03:44:34 GMT
References: <8910192224.aa06157@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <8910192224.aa06157@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, by ART100@PSUVM.PSU.EDU ("Andy Tefft  862-6728", 814):
> Umm.... Isn't this what the problem was way back when ShrinkIt was first
> introduced and the services didn't want to support it because they didn't
> know how long you (Andy) were gonna support it?
> 
> Seems to me to be a not-very-nice thing you're doing here and you seem
> to be sticking your tongue out over it. "Nyah, I got you beat and there's
> nothing you can do cause i got CIS and GEnie on my side now!!"
> 
> Of course, I don't own a GS now and I probably never will, and I don't
> even use ShrinkIt to archive anything, only unarchive, so I don't care
> if it goes away, and of course until next May or so I will be able
> to use Andy McFadden's new bugger, so what do I care? I don't know...

Well, I do use Shrinkit all the time. I, for one, will be more than
willing to buy Andy's next offering since what I've seen in the past is
so useful; far more than just unpacking things that come over the net.

I've noticed all the postings that are dumping on Andy for wanting to
get paid for something that nobody yet has.

Since his new product will only apply to the IIgs i.e., GENIE and the
others will use the old Shrinkit to pack for the older Apple's I fail
to see why these people are concerned.

Now to the IIgs folks:

Here is someone providing a product that works with your machine and
only your machine, anything you get/unpack with this product will be for
your machine only - why do you think they whould provide it free for
you personal use?

Since I don't have anything except an Apple I don't subscribe to other
comp.systems..., however, I really wonder if they are populaed with the
incredible number of bitchers I see in the Apple world. If not, does
that say that Apple owners have arrested personalities such that they
can't ever see the good side of anything?

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