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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Telix
Message-ID: <637@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 90 20:47:39 GMT
References: <2156@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1990Mar15.062734.7831@uwasa.fi> <1259@forty2.UUCP> <3797@plains.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <3797@plains.UUCP> person@plains.UUCP (Brett G. Person) writes:
| 
| Ya know, you could give some people the world on a silver platter and they'd
| still complain.  So what if Bill didn't review it?  If you don't understand
| what something is, ask!  Thats what the .d is for.  

  Well, I didn't intend to send it out without saying it was a comm
package, but I did think Keith's note was about enough. And I'm amazed
at the people who have apologised for mail I thought was perfectly fine.
Someone who mentioned that the review was missing didn't offend me, it
took some serious personal insult to do that.
| 
| A note for Bill: Did you ever get the backlog from Rahul? 

  Consider the backlog gone. I don't have it and am not looking for it.
I am still looking for a complete list of all postings for vols 1-5, but
I regard the backlog as a dead issue. If something you sent to Rahul is
still topical, send it to me.

  I can handle most formats, but things which come in without any
indication of what they are get processed more slowly than things with a
paragraph (if the readers got upset about one posting without an intro,
think how I feel about 7-10 per week!), and anything packaged in a self
unpacking archive is treated like a time bomb, and unpacked on a special
machine dedicated to being (a) indestructable, (b) able to identify any
virus which comes in, and (c) easily restorable if I find a problem.

  If I can't identify the package as being public domain or shareware I
usually have to ask why it is available to be posted, unless you save me
the trouble and tell me.

  You don't have to write a lot. As a good example of covering the two
points, "This is whizz, a tetris-like game I wrote and release for
non-commercial use." Isn't that easy?
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc
"Getting old is bad, but it beats the hell out of the alternative" -anon