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From: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: V1.3 Printer Drivers
Message-ID: <3435@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 13:29:12 GMT
References: <8802191344.AA24417@decwrl.dec.com> <5284@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <5284@swan.ulowell.edu> dfisk@hawk.ulowell.edu (David Fisk) writes:
>
>The following message is being posted for an area BBS SysOp who doesn't have
>access to USENet. Any replies or comments will be forwarded to him.
>-----------------
> I found out a couple of weeks ago that a guy named Paul MacDonald left a
> message here on Usenet saying that a copy of the 1.3 printer device plus a
> bunch of drivers were on the BBS that I run, called by him the "LCA" BBS
> (which is NOT the name of the BBS, the name is the IDCMP BBS. LCA is the name
> of the store where the BBS is run from, but that's not the name of the BBS!).
> Wel, I'd like to tell all of you here that this is NOT TRUE! IDCMP NEVER HAS,
> and NEVER WILL HAVE files available for downloading which aren't freely
> distributable!! I am the only person who has access to approve uploaded files
> on IDCMP, and I do my best to make sure that only freely distributable files
> are approved. When I heard of this message I checked every one of the over
> 700+ Amiga files online just to make sure, and there were no questionable
> files online. And a few days ago Paul left a message of IDCMP, saying that it
> was the other board in Florida that had the files in question illegally
> online, and he told me that the SYSOP of that board had quickly removed the
> files. I hope this reassures all of you out there that the IDCMP BBS is a
> clean board, and has always been free of non-PD files for all of the 14
> months it has been up.
>
>                    Graham Kinsey
>			 SYSOP, IDCMP BBS (617-769-8444, 8PM-8AM)
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>David Fisk
>dfisk@hawk.ulowell.edu


	I applaud your efforts and honesty.  In this case it would be
stupid for anybody to post beta versions of any V1.3 system software.
It's probably got bugs guys and its probably going to change so your
only going to do more damage than good if you let it out.

	Regards, David Berezowski