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From: denny@mcmi.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm, the newsgroup from hell
Message-ID: <263@mcmi.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 15:48:32 GMT
References: <1022@bellboy.UUCP> <2998@s.cc.purdue.edu> <343@pacbell.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: denny@mcmi.UUCP (Dennis Page)
Organization: Medical Computer Management, Omaha, NE
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Posted: Fri May 20 11:48:32 1988

In article <343@pacbell.PacBell.COM> david@pacbell.PacBell.COM (David St.Pierre) writes:
>I agree, but feel that Dave did Elm a pretty major disservice a few
>months ago by saying that *he* had 2.0 and then not talking about it
>anymore. Now people wonder whether they should look for 1.7, wait for
>2.0, or ???

  I also cannot claim to speak for Dave, but I would point out that
Dave has a real job, and real work to do.  This may or may not include
further development of Elm.  If it does, then one must consider the
position of Dave's employer (Hewlett Packard) in all this.  They may
consider Dave's continued work on this project to be proprietary in
nature.  Either way, they are likely to have something to say about
it's release to the net.  With this consideration in mind, it doesn't
surprise me that Elm 2.0 has not yet escaped HP.  Perhaps it never
will.
-- 
Denny Page		Martha, the Clones are loose again!

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