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From: nathan@orstcs.UUCP (nathan)
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Subject: Reed College maturity
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 20:51:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 20:51:00 1986
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Nf-From: orstcs!nathan    Jan 10 17:51:00 1986

While we're on the subject of excessive net traffic, it seems a good time
to discuss the behavior of people at Reed College.

Specifically, the Mac community's first contact with them (that I know
about) was the distribution of a fraudulently-labelled stolen copy of
Lonnie Abelbeck's VersaTerm product.

Since then, we've seen at least a megabyte of piddly, useless programs and
desk accessories written in Rascal.  It may be that Rascal itself is a 
useful product, but the evidence so far is that its primary function is
to consume net bandwidth for the aggrandizement of Reed students.

To the people at Reed: I'm sorry to come down on you so hard.  Perhaps you
could check with disinterested others to make sure your stuff is 
worth posting before you do so.

				Nathan C. Myers
				hp-pcd!orstcs!nathan