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From: mike@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,news.admin
Subject: Re: Can something be done about 770K waste of time postings...
Message-ID: <338@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 3 May 88 17:50:18 GMT
References: <1574@looking.UUCP> <5041@nsc.nsc.com> <157@ncar.ucar.edu> <21335@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: mike@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman)
Organization: Advanced Development, NCR Corporation, San Diego
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In article <21335@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <157@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
>>I agree with Brad. 770K for a commercial demo is not an appropriate use
>>of net bandwidth.

>It doesn't matter if it's a "commercial demo". If enough people want
>it then it is justified. 

I agree completely! I wonder how many of the software nerds would have
complained if the distribution was of a demo unix kernel or some such
instead of something they didn't understand.

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Michael Lodman  (619) 485-3335
Advanced Development NCR Corporation E&M San Diego
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