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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder 11.0 Announcement
Keywords: white knight
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Date: 26 Oct 89 17:12:01 GMT
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In article <3403@netcom.UUCP> wasilko@netcom.UUCP (Jeff Wasilko) writes:
>This still smells of commercial use of the net. I don't see Microsoft, Claris
>3Com or any other major software publishers / hardware manufacturers
>posting repetive messages (advertisements) about product upgrades. I don't
>see any reason why this should be any different.

Sorry, but I wish they did post upgrade notices to the net.  I don't see
that as a commerical use, but more of a user-services/customer support.
Claris, for instance, tends to sneak out lots and lots of bug-fix releases
as 1.0v1, 1.0v2, 1.0v3, etc.  I'd love to know when they're available,
but instead, I have to go by word of mouth.

Take THINK, for example.  THINK regularly posts upgrade patches, library
corrections, etc. to the net in comp.mac.binaries.  One could argue
that this is commercial use, but I think it's a wonderful service that
THINK provides and I'd give them an A+ for customer satisfaction and
service.

Ken



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