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From: rickc@agora.UUCP (Rick Coates)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: software other than utilities
Message-ID: <1303@agora.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 17:03:15 GMT
References: <1470@csuna.UUCP>
Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <1470@csuna.UUCP>, by abcscagz@csuna.UUCP (stepanek/cs assoc):
> 
> Much as I do appreciate the decision to moderate comp.binaries.ibm.pc,
> I did rather like the time when it was a free forum for one reason:
>    ANY software could appear there -- not just software that had been
> approved by the moderator.  The current generation seems to believe that
> the IBM binaries newsgroup should carry ONLY utilities, programming tools,
> et cetera, and not such niceties as Nethack, Moria, and maybe an occasional
> Star Trek game that one of us writes in Turbo Pascal version 4.0.
> 
> Now come on, what is life without a new Star Trek game every few weeks?

Don't blame RD - I doubt he is filtering out fun stuff (except, hopefully,
'demo' packages).  He can only pass on what he gets.  

I will soon send him a program to calculate the position of the planets -
does that count as a non-utility?

Solstice Greetings to all!

Rick Coates

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