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From: ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VI in TPU part 14/14 (AND ALL SUCH SUBMISSIONS!)
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Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 12:45:20 EST
Article-I.D.: chinet.1787
Posted: Tue Oct 27 12:45:20 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 06:35:56 EST
References: <2727@okstate.UUCP> <[G.BBN.COM]26-Oct-87.10:20:16.WOLF>
Reply-To: ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat)
Organization: Analysts International Corp.
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>	I would like to protest the distribution to the entire INFO-VAX
>	list of LARGE program sources such as the recent "VI in TPU" that
>	hit our machine this past weekend.  Mr. Wonderly's effort appears
>	to be impressive at least in terms of bulk, and may well be useful
>	to scores of INFO-VAXers -- that's not the point at all.  I just
>	don't see the point of inflicting a megabyte (more or less -- I
>	didn't count) of traffic through many networks worldwide on all
>	of us who aren't desiring it.

Mr. Wolf, you're way out of line.  There is no vms.sources group--your
complaint, if stated as "there should be such a group so that I could
ignore it"--would be OK.  (Then, of course, you'd gripe when a neat
program you needed flew by, and ask people to please send it to
you...)  This, incidentally, has turned out to be one of the hottest
pieces of software, VMS or Unix, that I've received in terms of
requests from clients; TPU is a powerful utility, but the only
DEC-provided interfaces (EVE and EDT/TPU) only weakly provide access
to its capabilities (no *wildcarding*, fer crissakes!)

Yes, I'd agree that a vms source group is in order; but for Ghod's
sake, don't bite the hand that feeds you--just because *you* don't
need *this* piece of software, you want to ban all software
submissions?  Create a new group, or volunteer an RA81 to use as a
remotely accessable archive for the world, but don't try to mess up my
access to such benefits as Greg's utility...

	Grrr,

		Dave Ihnat
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