Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!iuvax!bsu-cs!neubauer From: neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP (Paul Neubauer) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: z80 assemblers Message-ID: <3140@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 19 May 88 15:42:09 GMT References: Reply-To: neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP (Paul Neubauer) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 29 In article W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Keith Petersen) writes: >David, please don't post programs to Info-Cpm. It causes many people >to lose the entire Info-Cpm Digest because the file exceeds their >allocated disk storage. Everyone on this newsgroup can get files from >Simtel20 either by FTP or netmail using the server at CICGE.RPI.EDU. > >me via netmail. The best path from you will be > ...!uunet!simtel20.arpa!w8sdz >--Keith Keith, We've been through this before with other proposals for postings of programs. Yes, there are serious problems with postings and those problems are not going to go away. You have good reason to discourage posting, but your reasoning is FLAWED. It is simply NOT TRUE that "everyone on this newsgroup" can ftp. "This newsgroup" includes many people (like me) who are not reading INFO-CPM (a moderated internet (?) group), but comp.os.cpm (an unmoderated uunet group). The constraints are VERY different. It is still better to have the programs posted to Royal Oak, for example, than to the net, but SIMTEL20 is NOT accessible to everyone. I only wish I could have access to SIMTEL20 or ftp from other sites, but I can't. So please refrain from making unwarrented generalizations about what "everyone" can or cannot do. This is not intended as simply a flame, but you and a (large) number of other people from all of the various ends of "the" net do need to realize that their little corner of the net is not the whole thing. -- Paul Neubauer neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!neubauer