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From: gcc@ssc-vax.UUCP (Greg C Croasdill)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Reed College maturity
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 11:14:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 14 11:14:58 1986
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> 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

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Dear Sir,

	Many of the things that go out over the net, are not of interest to all.
However, the reason for the net is to get *ideas* out to the masses, quickly,
inexpensivly and efficently.  Any program, no matter how _piddly_, has someones
time and ideas put into it (two expensive resources).  That program may just
have the solution in it that someone may be seeking.  I ask you, are these
programs any more or less important than DAs that corrupt your screen or 
*7* posting of last year's 1040 forms? Those are real useful to someone in
Canada!  Please, think before you speak, Athlete's tongue is a dangerous
disease.

					Greg C.
					(uw-beaver|fluke)!ssc-vax!gcc

ps And while we are on the subject of net traffic,  you could of saved the
   space of your comment and mine if you had bothered to look at one of their
   postings and eMailed to the Reed college Maclab (any idiot can do that).
   KEEP SMALL TOWN, COLLEGE RIVALRIES, OFF OF THE NET!