Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dasys1!tneff From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Exec-PC BBS to ban ARC files Message-ID: <6324@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 8 Sep 88 18:57:29 GMT References: Reply-To: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: Independent Users Guild Lines: 36 Bob Mahoney is being a twit on this one. Refusing ARCs in the first place was stupid, because Vern Buerg's ARCE.COM has been around forever, has always been as fast or faster than Katz's stuff, and has always been free. (It has always been fully approved by SEA and remains unaffected by the recent legal action.) Dropping ARCs now because one might have to give up Katz's assiduously hyped beg-ware is even dumber. Nobody needed PK-anything in the first place, the code was rumored to be tainted from the word "go" anyway, and now that the author has been burned by his reluctance to get approval for his product when things were friendly, he has no-one but himself to blame. Dropping ARCs out of some supposed moral outrage at the "treatment" accorded Katz is simply misguided. There is not a shred of evidence I have seen suggesting that SEA's action lacked merit. The "outraged" folks flaming here and elsewhere have not seen the facts of the case; the court HAS and the lawyers have. There is no reason to believe they are idiots. And if the allegations in the contempt motion (e.g., Katz continuing to use "ARC" in the PKPAK user manual) are factual, then that looks pretty much open & shut too, though I wouldn't expect much more than a comply order from the judge this time around. Any BBS that places the convenience and welfare of its *users* first, should post ARCE.COM prominently for users wishing to extract archived files from the libraries, and ARC.EXE for users wishing to build their own archives. (For fast building, ARCA.COM is available free from Vern.) Anything else is just playing politics, and the users lose. -- Tom Neff UUCP: ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff "None of your toys CIS: 76556,2536 MCI: TNEFF will function..." GEnie: TOMNEFF BIX: t.neff (no kidding) -- Tom Neff UUCP: ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tneff "None of your toys CIS: 76556,2536 MCI: TNEFF will function..." GEnie: TOMNEFF BIX: t.neff (no kidding)