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From: rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Tech Notes
Message-ID: <408@ccird1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-May-86 20:46:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  8 20:46:24 1986
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Reply-To: rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard)
Organization: CCI Rochester Development, Rochester NY
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In article <800@wang.UUCP> ephraim@wang.UUCP (pri=8 Ephraim Vishniac x76659 ms1459) writes:
>Joel West writes:
>> Does anyone want to start a mod.mac.technotes?
>Logically, Apple should.  They're on the net and they have the notes
>in machine-readable form.  I'm not sure how this would be with respect
>to netiquette, but I see that Commodore-Amiga is shameless about using
>net.micro.amiga to provide technical support.  Thoughts, anybody?

Hey, CA isn't the only one.  Atari, Tandy, AT&T and TI among others
read their respective groups, keep readers posted, and look for
ideas that are useful, standards, and get a "feel" for how users
are reacting to their product.  CA took many of the net suggestions
for it's new version of Intuition.  Many companies actually encourage
employees to read and reply to the net.

Reading and responding to technical, or even policy questions is
not only acceptable, it is good for both the net and the company.
Atari, DRI, and CA even "fess up" to their mistakes :-).

As long as none of these companies' contributors gets into the
"Ours is better than theirs" and other "pitches", technical
information, sources and binaries (so long as there is no implied
charge), and various other support efforts should be welcomed.

In fact, Atari people have now made it possible for Amiga developers
to port their products to the ST (actually, you have to have
linkable modules or something like that).  This kind of co-operation
is very nice :-).

If Apple is on the net and wants to make contributions, by all means
let them do so.  They don't even need a special group, just put
their company name on the "Organization" line.

Frankly, I'm impartial, we have a Mac, are looking at Amiga, and
I plan on getting an ST for home.  Any chance of Mac users using
uu{en,de}code like the rest of us?