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From: jafischer@lily.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Posting Binaries - please read
Message-ID: <3404@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 29 Feb 88 00:15:32 GMT
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Keywords: program binaries

In article <994@sbcs.sunysb.edu> lean@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Lean L. Loh) writes:
>It's silly to post a 50K uuencoded thing which is preceded by 2 lines saying
>it's a blah, blah, blah.
>	... etc, etc, gripe gripe gripe.

	A) I posted the contents of the .arc file several days prior to
posting the .uue.  B) The topic had been discussed to a small extent on the
net already.  C) I specified that it was the sources, and demo, for an
alternate File Selector routine.  D) I didn't write it, so I had no more
information to pass on. 

	Please don't take this as a personal flame, Lean.  You had valid
concerns, but I feel obliged to defend myself.

	New Topic:
	==========

	About the unkind treatment of James Turner (ex-moderator of the
source and binary groups) lately: perhaps some of the criticism has stemmed
from the fact that many students are used to having a great deal of time to
spend perusing the net each day.  People working full-time have an entirely
different concept of free time.  It is a cherished thing, especially in a
workforce in which one is often expected to put in 50+ hour weeks with no
overtime pay.  I've had a few co-op work-terms in such an environment, and
even though I was not nearly as busy as some of my co-workers, I found that I
had very little time or energy to fool around on my computer at home in the
evenings.  Probably James has even less time than I had.  And he has recently
started a new job, so the last thing he wants to do is to get caught spending
time uploading Atari ST sources and binaries to the net during work hours. 
Good way to make a first impression. 

	I for one wish to thank James for the work he did; his only failure
was in delaying too long the decision to drop a duty that he evidently had
little or no time to perform.  But when he was more active, he did a
first-rate job.  Thanks, James!

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				- Jonathan A. Fischer,    jafischer@lily.waterloo.edu
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