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From: ta-dw30@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (David Worenklein)
Subject: Apple should let us e-mail System 7
Message-ID: <1991May15.012545.18398@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Summary: Kinda like Prohabition (Sp?) - if it don't work, scrap it...
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Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 01:25:45 GMT

  Seems to me that, by trying to protect the information, Apple just ended up
with a blown FTP server and a very frustrated mjohnson (not to mention hundreds
of irate Mac fanatics.)  And I'm sure they realize that, as soon as someone on
your block gets System 7, you'll be right over w/ a dozen disks, despite the
fact that that's not Kosher. So why doesn't Apple just say "Go ahead. Give it
to anyone in the U.S. We give up."  Somebody even mentioned that Apple
Australia did just that!
  If someone at Apple says "fine, just leave us alone" I'll e-mail System 7 to
the first four people to ask for it, provided that they promise to send it to
five other people who ask for it.
  But before you send me e-mail (let's see how flooded my mailbox gets), I must
warn everyone:
    1) I don't even _have_ System 7 (I'm not even using 6.0.7!)
    2) I wouldn't do it without Apple's O.K.

  Apple, if you don't like the program, don't even bother responding to this
message. (Seems to me they have 102 other things to worry about.) I'll take a
"no comment" as a "we have legitamite (sp?) reasons for not accepting this
plan, but are currently much too busy to tell them to you."


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David C Worenklein      | No one could tell me where my soul might be;
Columbia College '93    | I searched for God, but he eluded me;
in the City of New York | I sought my brother out, and found all three. -Crosby