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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990
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Date: 17 Sep 90 12:11:27 GMT
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In article <1990Sep17.010600.11421@vicom.com> lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) writes:

>I think that Henry and Geoff need to accept that fact that their software, in
>the absence of anything better, is becoming the net standard and act in a
>manor that is responsible and consistent with the rest of the net.  The time
>has come for normal patch levels and reasonable message id's.

Er, excuse me, but did Henry and Geoff come visit your site and force
you to install C news on your system?  THEY wrote the software, THEY
made it available for YOU to use for FREE, and you demand that they
act in a "responsible" manner?

If you don't like the softare, don't use it.  But don't give these
guys a hard time because the choose to give software away for others
to use rather than just using it internally.

What do you want for free?  You can't even give software away for free these
days..

louie