From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!wm
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Queries on the network.
Article-I.D.: unc.4219
Posted: Thu Nov  4 09:22:10 1982
Received: Sat Nov  6 05:24:28 1982

Really!  Let's get rid of all these bothersome software and hardware
queries on the net so we can free up the news groups for things that
are *really* important, like hamburger debates!

Actually, I think that software queries are one of the most beneficial
aspects of the net.  I once posted a query looking for Simula, whick
I would not have found in any of those documents, and was told about
a new package which added abstract data types to C, which is what I
really wanted anyway, and which also was not to be found in any of
those documents.  The timely distribution of new software is one of
the most wonderful features of the net.  I also gain from reading
other people's software and hardware queries, because it keeps me
up on new developments.  Access to information like this is just about
the only thing I get out of the net that helps me in my work.  Please
don't take it away.
			Wm Leler - UNC Chapel Hill