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From: laird@chinet.chi.il.us (Laird J. Heal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe
Summary: Flame on, harvest moon
Message-ID: <1990Sep08.111425.15358@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 8 Sep 90 11:14:25 GMT
References: <5299@spt.entity.com> <14996@wpi.wpi.edu> <44527@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <44527@apple.Apple.COM>, das@Apple.COM (David Shayer writes

>Regarding Mr. Conner's attitude towards Stuffit...
>
>*** FLAME ON ***
>
>While I have sympathy for people who have survived a lobotomy,
>I'd suggest that he listen to the dozens of folks who have
>suggested that he stick with the old format.
>
>Marty, are you hard of hearing, or just stupid? If you like
>the old, non-proprietary format, then use it!  
>
>If you have this much passion, get a real issue, like homelessness.
>Anyone can whine about a problem, few can actually solve them.
>
>*** FLAME OFF ***

Quite to the contrary, I found Mr. Connor's postings, while a little
lengthy in the best Usenet tradition, well founded and to the point.

There seem to be some people stubbornly insisting that it would be
better to shift to the new Stuffit format, which was after all the
previous practice.  Sometimes, in a democracy, things get decided on
a voice vote, and here on the net this is at least a democracy, if not
an anarchy.

While news.groups is full of this kind of talk, I feel it is pertinent
to comp.sys.mac.misc to discuss keeping the file format in comp.binaries.
mac in the old, open, format.  There is no comp.binaries.mac.d and every
so often there is a need to discuss the charter of that group.

I would like to compliment you on the gentlemanly tone of your flame,
but I feel that you are more confused on the issues than Mr. Connor,
who simply sounded like he deserved a good toasting - what he had to
say was very relevant, although as I said before  philosophy belongs
in a Cambridge coffeehouse and what we should discuss here is what it
would cost everyone to switch from something that works to something
that is new and different.

Hee Hee - replies will fall on deaf ears, as I am just visiting my old
account on Chinet for the weekend, and news on my home machine is still
not really reliable, just installing it and I was going to turn it off
for the weekend except that my latest attempt to fix it sent all new
articles to /dev/null...

Laird Heal	laird@slum.MV.COM
(Salem, NH)	(603) 898-1406