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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Binaries/Shareware
Message-ID: <19648@sun.uucp>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 01:48:48 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 26 01:48:48 1987
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Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Organization: Fictional Reality, uLtd
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Keywords: Expensive

>I'm now a 'paying' USENET member (by virtue of the uunet experiment),
>I've been watching my phone costs using Jack Bonn's 'uucost' program.
>I've subscribed to all the source groups.  Tonight I waited while 45
>minutes of traffic came in over comp.sources.misc.  I could hardly
>                                     -------
>contain myself waiting to see what new goodies the net had brought
>me.  Well, I was struck down with disappointment when I discovered
>that the $2.25 I just spent was:
>	1) A REPOST of
>	2) A UUENCODED, BINARY copy of
>	3) A SHAREWARE program (ARC520), which
>	4) You can get on nearly any local RBBS
>
>This came through a MODERATED group.  I was under the impression that
>items 2) and 3) were strictly forbidden on the net.  And I thought
>that the delays of having a moderated group were supposed to be
>balanced by the benefits of eliminating these sort of postings.
>I certainly didn't want to spend the money for this.  Any net-guru's
>care to comment?

Yes, we had this argument, what, a year ago?  Lots of yelling, the result
being that (basically) this is a net with lots of different people and
interests, and not everything out there is going to be (or should be) of
interest to everyone.  That's the breaks.  You found a case of something
that you can't use, but is of use to lots of other people.  That happens.

So, two comments:

o Isn't it wonderful that we live in a world where so many needs can be
	serviced at a relatively low cost?  And that there ARE so many
	different viewpoints and sources of informations?

o If we ARE going to restart this argument, can someone please let me know
	when it is over so I can resubscrive to the group? (As a side
	comment, traditionally when these flame wars start up, the argument
	takes up a LOT more net bandwidth than the original "problem" and
	gets a lot less accomplished)

Enjoy diversity!

chuq

Chuq Von Rospach	chuq@sun.COM		[I don't read flames]

There is no statute of limitations on stupidity