Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!utastro!werner From: werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: please stop that whining (was Re: British software) Summary: it's always useful to know that something is available "somewhere" Message-ID: <3122@utastro.UUCP> Date: 16 Sep 88 19:45:46 GMT References: <1248@ndsuvax.UUCP> <3101@utastro.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 33 In , iwm@asun3.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) writes: > In article <1248@ndsuvax.UUCP>, ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel) writes: > > What is the purpose of the announcements of software to be posted in > > Britain? Why are these announcements placed in comp.sys.mac? > > If ... no purpose other than to make non-Britishers jealous, please stop! > Now you know how those of us in Europe feel when we see `available by > anonymous FTP from xxx' on a software announcement. I guess that 99% of > European users cannot easily get such software. you are both rather silly! when I indicate that something is available for FTP, that tells those that can access it that they don't need to ask anyone else for the the favor to forward it by e-mail. others can ask a net-friend who has access to retrieve the file and forward it. Myself, I have yet to turn down anyone asking me to forward a file... ...of course, people who have nothing better to do but to air negative feelings towards exactly those people who are doing the net-community the favor of posting information about the existence and availability of files (and who can, and, probably, would respond favorably to a request to forward by e-mail) ... ...well, those party-poopers probably don't have the social skills to make friends over the net!!! "p-p-p-plllleaaasssse, don't hurt me ...." - Roger Rabbit -- --------------------> PREFERED-RETURN-ADDRESS-FOLLOWS <--------------------- (ARPA) werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet: 128.83.144.1) (INTERNET) werner%rascal.ics.utexas.edu@cs.utexas.edu (UUCP) ..!utastro!werner or ..!uunet!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner