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From: chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elmheaders question (Another one)
Message-ID: <1991May11.031807.6044@osh3.OSHA.GOV>
Date: 11 May 91 03:18:07 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.002530.12097@jadpc.cts.com> <3192@spim.mips.COM> <1991May08.222844.24335@jadpc.cts.com> <1991May9.225312.389@unixland.uucp>
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In <1991May9.225312.389@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:

>In article <1991May08.222844.24335@jadpc.cts.com> jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) writes:
>>  How about it Syd?  Can you even give a common courtesy such as email
>>or news article to someone that asks a question?
>>

>There's a lot more involved than just "common courtesy".  It involves 
>LOTS of time!  I think if Syd spent enough time answering questions to
>keep up with the traffic in this group, he'd never have a chance to do any
>further development on his software!

>I think it is up to us, the Usenet community, to help each other out
>when necessary.

I don't think there should ever be a question about that here.  If the
guy is nice enough to maintain and distribute this program for free we
have no right to demand responses or talk about common courtesy.

It seems to me that with the ranking on the ShareWare programmers and
this kind of attitude towards the FreeWare programmers there are an
awfully large number of users who are plenty ungrateful and have no
appreciation for what they are getting for free.

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Charles "Chip" Yamasaki
chip@oshcomm.osha.gov