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Subject: Re: new moderated newsgroup(s) for Atari ST software distrbution
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Date: Sun, 22-Feb-87 13:37:29 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 22 13:37:29 1987
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References: <882@imagen.UUCP> <1073@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: silvert@dalcs.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Organization: Marine Ecology Lab.
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In article <1073@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
writes: (I've left out most of the stuff to which he responded)
>Don't you just love anarchy?
There has been plenty of opportunity to comment on the proposal.
>Source or nothing; send binaries through the mail.
Sure.  What language?  If C or Pascal, which dialect?  We're not talking
	Unix, where everybody has a full K&R compiler.
>Then they ain't uu{en,de}code.
The big problem in uuencoding is robustness, not compatiblity.
>Get outta town.  Have Atari set up a support group on BIX, Delphi or
>another COMMERCIAL service.  Leave Usenet alone.
This is for us, not Atari.
>Maybe the point of Usenet.  Or are you talking about Stargate?
Somebody sure missed the point.  Maybe we need a
	comp.sys.atari.st.flames group just for you.
-- 
Bill Silvert
Marine Ecology Laboratory, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
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