Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!decwrl!hplabs!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!amos!hartung From: hartung@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: PAK v2.10, part 1 of 2 Message-ID: <7412@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> Date: 10 Nov 89 20:30:52 GMT References: <5292@cps3xx.UUCP> <7407@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <5327@cps3xx.UUCP> Sender: nobody@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu Reply-To: hartung@amos.UUCP (Jeff Hartung) Organization: Univ. of Calif., San Diego Lines: 33 In article <5327@cps3xx.UUCP> hendrick@frith.UUCP (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes: #Well Jeff, I am the guilty party who posted PAK v2.10 to c.b.i.p.d. I #did it only because I couldn't mail to Rahul. I have since been given #another address/route to try. (Thank you Keith.) # #As far as I know, the program is not infected with a virus. I would not #have posted it if I knew it to be hazardous to your computer. In #addition, I am positive that it is shareware. Also, I know it was of #interest to at least 3 people, because they requested it. I did not #have any ill intentions - just problems with the out of date and #unmaintained routing tables here. Please forgive me, and have pity on #all of us who have to suffer through ~50%+ bounced mail. It's really #not any fun. Consider yourself forgiven :-) Seriously, though, it was not my intention to accuse you of posting a program that was infected, useless, or in violation of copyrights. Rather (as cliche as this may sound) it is the precedent that is set when someone posts binaries to discussion groups. I don't believe that anyone, back in the unmoderated early days of c.b.i.p, intentionally posted stuff with viruses, that wasn't PD, etc., but it happened. Also, duplicate versions of programs were posted, reposts that were unnecessary occurred, and the newsgroup was almost shut down because of it. Since we have a moderated group for binaries, we should use it, and only it, for distribution of programs. Those of you with problems getting mail through to Rahul could post a brief request to this newsgroup asking for help. --Jeff Hartung-- Disclaimer: My opinions only, etc., etc., BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!... ARPA - hartung@amos.ucsd.edu UUCP - ucsd!amos.ucsd.edu!hartung