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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,news.groups
Subject: Re: Update of comp.binaries hypercard vote
Message-ID: <717@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 13:44:19 GMT
References: <458@stech.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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I am going to urge a NO vote on comp.binaries.hypercard.  My reasons?
Basically, two.  First, the volume would be outrageously large - stacks
aren't small.  Second, the limited applicability of this to the needs
of the net as a whole.  While there are a lot of Mac owners on Usenet,
there are also many, many more who do not own Macs, or do not own Macs
on which Hypercard is usable.  There are many public-access systems
out there, from BBS's to places like SIMTEL (although I don't think
that they do Macs).  Upload and download 'em to your heart's content,
but don't send them over our airwaves. (modemwaves? etherwaves?
whatever)

If you take this as a condemnation of binary groups in general, you're
probably right.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame