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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Users' Group
Message-ID: <1454@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 10:17:29 EST
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1454
Posted: Mon Nov  9 10:17:29 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Nov-87 06:19:12 EST
References: <2191@kitty.UUCP> <1406@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2748@megaron.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 21
Keywords: CUG, comments

I wrote about the C users group:
     They were demanding a list of serial numbers of all C compilers
     you owned as a condition for joining--sounded like a front for the
     FBI.

In article <2748@megaron.arizona.edu> rupley@arizona.edu (John Rupley) writes:
>The comment about the FBI is a bit unfair.

The whole story is that when I purchased Ecosoft's C compiler for
MS-DOS about two (three?) years ago I got with it a sample C newsletter
and some literature about the C user's group.  The literature indicated
that this was a users group for C users (not BDS C users, just C
users).  The application form had space for serial numbers, and said
that it was a condition for joining that the applicant supply these.

Of course, I know the FBI doesn't have the resources to go around
setting up user groups like this, which won't catch too many copyright
violators.  But it sure sounded like the kind of thing the FBI would
do, if it ever decided to do it.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi