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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: tetris and posting sources
Message-ID: <9106091352.23@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 91 22:52:00 GMT
References: <15479153@mailgsm.mendelson.com>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Superuser)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <15479153@mailgsm.mendelson.com> gsm@mailgsm.mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes:
>This is an explanation, not a flame, so please don't be insulted. :-)
>
>kimmel@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Mathew Kimmel) said:
>
>>I just assumed it wasn't cool to post sources here, since I'd never seen
>>any.  But, maybe I was wrong, so I'll give it a shot. 
>
>No, you were right. Posting source files to this group causes problems for
>those of us who pay for our news distribution. Since 50k is the equivalent of
>SEVERAL WEEKS traffic in c.o.c, posting source files will cause many of us
>to have to drop this group.

Not posting sources causes problems for those of us who don't have $10000+
to set up an Internet site.  For me, piggy might as well be on the moon,
except under special circumstances.

>I am in the U.S. and use UUNET as my feed. I pay about one cent a k-bytes, but
>my news feed (which is a small one) still costs me over a hundered dollars a
>month. 
>  
>There are some people on this group (Joachim for example) who have to pay 
>government owned telephone companies ridiculous (to us) rates for data
>telephone service. I think he pays close to a dollar a k-byte.
>
>Tetris is a nice game, it may be worth the 50 cents I paid to get it. BUT IT
>IS NOT WORTH $50.00 or even $5.00. Escpecially since it was not asked for.
>
>So please don't post sources here. If you want files from  a different country
>make a personal arangment to email it or (heaven forbid) air-mail a diskette.
>
>You can send 1.2 megabytes of compressed (almost 2 megabytes) of data on one
>diskette for about $3.00 (including diskette). And it gets there in a week.
>
>MEA CULPA. I have posted large files to this group too. I am speaking from
>experience. :-)

So you think that Coherent should be the only system/os on the net that
doesn't have sources posted?

>>Here is a shar of my port of Tetris, the popular falling-blocks game.  
>>Enjoy, and please send me any questions/comments...
>
>I also have some complaints about how the file was sent:
>
>     1. It is too big to be edited with the STANDARD COHERENT EDITOR "me".

I cut of the header with vi (elvis), no big deal.

>     2. The STANDARD COHERENT MAKE "make" will not make it.

Make,