Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!rutgers!caip!clyde!bellcore!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxf!mhuxi!mhuhk!mhuxt!aluxs!cdl From: cdl@aluxs.UUCP (MITCHELL) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Posting of PD and Shareware Message-ID: <807@aluxs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 10:45:16 EDT Article-I.D.: aluxs.807 Posted: Mon Oct 6 10:45:16 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Oct-86 23:47:06 EDT References: <10300030@uiucuxf> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ Lines: 25 > > Since I posted the FASTIMES disk caching utility, I received a lot of positive > e-mail. I would like to post other utilities (ususally without source code), > but I am unsure as to the netiquette regarding the posting of materials like > this. Of course all the material I would post would be in the public domain or > Shareware. The questions I have are: > 1) Should DOS utilities be posted here or on another part of the net? > 2) Is this acceptable practice for the net? > 3) Is anyone interested in obtaining my favorite DOS utilities? > 4) How come Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes looks the same now as he did in 1957? > > If I get a positive response on the first three questions, I will post a > nice PROKEY-like utility almost immediately. > > > Mike Bruno > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) > Arpanet: mjb224%uiucuxf@a.cs.uiuc.edu > Csnet: mjb224%uiucuxf@uiuc.csnet > Bitnet: mjb224@uiucuxf > UUCP: {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucd********* Only through December of 1986 ********************** I would be more than happy to obtain source of your utilities however, I think program sources should be posted in "net.sources". This assumption might be wrong because if most people like your utilities I doubt that they would complain