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From: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ZOO availability (was: A Short History of Arching on Micros)
Summary: Please read Rahul's postings on this subject.
Message-ID: <6910@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 88 03:51:53 GMT
References: <13593@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <4330109@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Organization: Zen Community of New York
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Quoth hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin) in <4330109@hpindda.HP.COM>:
|>These provisions allow everyone, everywhere, to make and extract zoo
|>files without making a monitary contribution or without fear of incompatible
|>formats appearing.  I suppose reasonable people could quibble about some
|>of these provisions, but compared to the alternatives, the choice is clear.
|>
|>Paul Homchick
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|
|I think a liitle understanding is called for on both sides of this issue.
|This is not intended to be "incediary" and I hope it is not considered a mere
|"quibble".  I can understand how those whose contact with the outside world
|is exclusively via this network consider ZOO as a godsend, saving us all from
|further involvement in the ARC wars.  For the many of us who also use
|CompuServe (which does not meet the $8.00/hr @ 1200 baud restriction), however,
|it becomes just another utility we will be forced to keep around for the 
|ZOO-format postings we find here.  The choice for us is (1) zoo and arc
|or (2) just arc.  Many of us consider a single archiving format preferable
|to multiple formats.  The restrictions placed on ZOO prevent it from making
|a bid to be that one format.  Too bad.  It looked promising at first.
|
|John Hardin    hardin%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com

John, Rahul has stated >repeatedly< that the only restriction he requires is 
that the >latest version< of ZOO not be posted on C$erve.  Therefore, as the 
latest version of ZOO I've seen is 2.02, there is no reason why 2.01 (which is
very little different) could not be made available on C$erve.
 
His restriction is really no restriction.

You're making a big fuss over nothing.

Although, Rahul, to avoid this kind of confusion, I would recommend you 
drop the restriction as well.

Because, even as you have described it, you are also making a bit of a fuss
over what is really nothing, and it just confuses people like John.



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