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From: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for votes: comp.binaries.hypercard
Message-ID: <8245@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 24 Feb 88 15:11:12 GMT
References: <454@stech.UUCP> <960@athos.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <960@athos.rutgers.edu> webber@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) writes:
>While it is natural to oppose the creation of yet another moderated group
>or of yet another binary group, I would like to point out that this particular
>binary group would be even worse than usual.

I'm sorry, but I really must disagree.  The fact is that many mac owners
DO NOT use HyperCard.  I for one use, it but I'm not going to take the
time to download every stack in sight.  The recent Esperanto stack
that came though is a good example.  15 parts!  Considering that
backlog that comp.binaries.mac is experiencing, 15 parts is a HUGE
ammount of time/space spent on a single program.  Had that been posted
to a comp.binaries.mac.hypercard, fine.

The fact is, that stacks are large.  They take a lot of time.  For those
people on the net who do not use hypercard, it's silly to make them have
to wait an extra month to get some program because huge stacks are hogging
time/space.

Ken


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