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From: dws@tolerant.UUCP (Dave W. Smith)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Cleaning up net.sources.mac
Message-ID: <175@tolerant.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 13:51:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 13:51:17 1985
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Keywords: net.shareware.mac

First, I'd like to congratulate Joel on his analysis of the problem,
and for providing his evidence up-front.

I disagree with Joel's thinking on ShareWare, but agree with his
recommendation that we move towards something like mod.sources.mac.
The utility I get out of ShareWare, plus the option to throw it away
if I don't like it with no $ lost, far outways the "commercial" stigma
of a software author asking for money if I like his product.  Granted,
this use of net.micro.mac costs bandwidth.  Outside of net.{flame,
abortion,...}, net.sources.mac consumes a large percentage of our news
resources, and there's a lot of near duplication in content.

Let's give some serious thought to mod.sources.mac.
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  David W. Smith                 {nsc,ucbvax}!tolerant!dws
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