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From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PSPICE Program (missing pieces, etc.)
Message-ID: <166@falkor.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 88 03:20:21 GMT
References: <2719@umd5.umd.edu> <72@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Organization: Luck Dragons, Magic, & Friends
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Bill Fenner (wcf@psuhcx) writes:
> Please, people, don't do this... The PSPICE demo has wasted enough
> bandwith, without pieces parts being sent around individually.  The demo
> is available from the maker of PSPICE, guaranteed not to have any
> truncated or missing sections!  Why not ask THEM for it?

Bill is absolutely right.  Furthermore, I have a cron job that searches
my main system's (mcdchg) mail logs for any "large" email that does
not originate or terminate on mcdchg and mails me the log entry for
any such that it finds.  If I find someone abusing our generosity by
passing PSPICE via our site, I will kill the uucp job if it has not
yet been passed along.  Further, I will contact the administrator of
the machine from which the abuse originated.  "Automatic mail routing"
is not a valid excuse for it passing through my site.  There is ABSOLUTELY
NO EXCUSE for emailing PSPICE parts around.  People can apparently get
it from the makers.  If this is undesirable for some reason, then
you can set up DIRECT uucp links that do not affect anyone else's
budget.  My site passes a pretty fair amount of mail around for people.
I even tolerate the occasional large email message.  But, I cringe at
the thought that I may be on the "best" route for multiple copies of
a multi-hundred kilobyte package that I've already paid to pass to
close to a dozen sites I feed news.  I've done my part.  No flames
accepted.  Thank you very much.
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
"I believe in the Tooth Fairy."  "I believe in Santa Claus."
	"I believe in the future of the Space Program."