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From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Subject: Re: TASS 3.0 - a News Reader
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.170205.20941@jrix.radig.de>
Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany
References: <9104152015.09@trystro.uucp> <1991Apr14.180426.3853@jrix.radig.de> <1991Apr15.160006.25249@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <595@tivoli.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 17:02:05 GMT
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Before I posted TASS 3.0 I asked some Coherent user what to do.
Post it or leave it. All I asked want to get TASS posted so I posted it.
As Lar mentioned I normally have no possibilities to ftp. After posting
an article to comp.unix.misc or whatever I got a reply from a guy in
northern germany. He has possibilities to ftp sources from piggy. He
ftp's the software and afterwards sended me diskettes.
But I also think about those people who will never have this possiblities,
who can't afford a 30 minute login to MWCBBS. Or won't to pay $ 35 + $ 10
for 4 diskettes with COHWARE full of public domain (!) software.
I also agree that large sources must not be posted to this group. I think
there should be a limit and a kind of CFV: post that or not ?

When I received Scott's mail I was very angry about it also because he now
mails as Martin Luther King. This fact made me most angry. I was thinking 
about: Why did Scott use this name. Any intention ?
But now I received a new mail from Scott and also a lot of mail from people
who were lucky about the posting and now I'm no longer angry.

I think that comp.os.coherent is the only group where we can post ported
coherent sources. In comp.sources.misc you will got a lot of flames. Maybe
alt.sources but not for reposting a ported source.

Some people asked me for WNEWS 3.0 - a small news system (120 K compressed,
6 split articles, spread on 3 days posting ?) Assume TASS and
WNEWS as a Starter kit (comp.binaries.ibm.pc-alike) for receiving News
with a Coherent-System

I intend to post it but I now want that most people agree.
CFV: Post WNEWS 3.0/Coherent ?

Hope to hear your opinion

Joachim


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