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From: cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broad Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: new upload to atari.archive
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.225028.8644@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 90 22:50:28 GMT
References: <26516@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <10826@life.ai.mit.edu> <1990Sep19.163839.12496@math.lsa.umich.edu>
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In article <1990Sep19.163839.12496@math.lsa.umich.edu> dyer@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jon Brode) writes:
>In article <10826@life.ai.mit.edu> entropy@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (enthalpy) writes:
>>p.s. Why on earth is the directory unreadable?  That's nuts!
>
>We have our reasons, but thank you for questioning our sanity anyway.
>
>Making the new directory unreadable is supposed to prevent users from
>accessing the files there. This gives us a chance to preview what's there
>before the world gets a chance to retrieve it. This policy was started
>after some fool uploaded TOS 1.4. If Atari had an over zealous legal
>department like some companies (read: Apple, the evil empire) we could
>have had some real trouble. 

  good idea.  I own an apple and read comp.sys.apple and recently, someone
  uploaded midisynth demo and system disk 5.0.2 to an FTP site and the
  apple people got REAL pissed.

[munch munch]
>Jon Brode  --  jon@atari.archive.umich.edu			Jesse '92!
> Supreme Allied Umich Atari Archive Commander (and humble too!)
>--
>Jon Brode  --  dyer@math.lsa.umich.edu			Jesse '92!
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Collin Douglas

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