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From: stephan@kontron.UUCP (Stephan W. Wendl)
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Subject: Re: (none)
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Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 12:38:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  1 12:38:57 1986
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References: <8607291022.AA11996@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <407@atari.UUcp>
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> In article <8607291022.AA11996@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET writes:
> 
> > a user group) and they make them available in some form (which does not
> > mean they actually have to distribute them, just put them on a BBS or so).
> 
> A good idea.  Sorry I didn't think of it myself.  Disks will be sent ASAP.
> -- 
> --->Neil @ Atari
> 

Just to defend ATARI. The only way to distribute such programs in Germany would
be by disks. BBS do not exist in Germany except a few which run over a switched
network (DATEX-P). The simple fact is just that one can not buy a modem and hook
it up as we do here in the US. The German Telephon Company won't let you. A modem
needs to be installed and rented from the "Deutsche Bundes Post" and as far as I
remember this is not a cheap solution.