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From: jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Is there an X based calentool?
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Date: 20 Mar 90 17:54:01 GMT
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Reply-To: jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
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As you might expect, Digital has a calendar program (dxcalendar)
provided on our 
product.

But....

If each company posts a message that it has each possible application
(like a calendar program), this newsgroup will end up getting inundated
as applications from both themselves and other 3rd parties come online.

I suggest that such traffic be MAILED to people who ask for
applications, and they
can summarize to the newsgroup, rather than the newsgroup getting the M
times N 
message problem we are beginning to see.  This reduces it to an order N message
problem, which is much more managable to all concerned.  I personally don't
care if there is a product that runs on XYZ workstation manufacturer's
hardware,
unless the program is public domain, it is not of general interest, except in
summary form.

Jim Gettys
Digital Equipment Corporation
Cambridge Research Laboratory