Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!bstempleton
From: bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Proposing a new "shareware.*" news heirarchy
Message-ID: <35243@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 90 06:52:14 GMT
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Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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The problem is that after so many people reported that they felt no need
to respect shareware posted to a net, and others report particularly bad
registration response from USENET, I doubt there is much use for
a shareware hierarchy.  Shareware authors won't want to see their stuff
posted there, and some have said they would have to put rulings on their
shareware to forbid it.

Which cuts Unix out of the shareware market.

A good majority of the responses to that recent poll said they like the
current system -- post shareware, but with restrictions.  That's what we have
now, as all source/binary groups on USENET proper are moderated.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473