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From: wiseman@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: comp.mac.binaries (Info-Mac alternative?)
Message-ID: <1932@tellab5.TELLABS.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 90 18:14:30 GMT
References: <3514@husc6.harvard.edu> <126900136@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1032@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: wiseman@tellab5.UUCP (Jeff Wiseman)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle IL
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In article <1032@crash.cts.com> alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro) writes:
>In article <126900136@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>I agree.  Commercial demos should not appear in comp.binaries.mac.
>>They might just go to the SUMEX archives.  However, some people cannot
>>access the SUMEX archives.  These people will bitch like crazy.
>
>My vote too - if it says demo on it I hit the Junk key. I wonder
>if Info-Mac archives are a good place to get this stuff and a posting
>made to comp.sys.mac detailing items that are available.
>
>Beware though, I cannot get Info-Mac to mail me articles that are > 100k
>due to uucp mail restrictions. Can Info-Mac be made to split a mailing
>using LISTSERV?
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I have mixed feelings about the demos on comp.binaries.mac. Some of them can be
kind of fun (eg. Leprechaun). I Suppose that technically any shareware that is
not paid for is "demo". I assume that the meaning of the word "demo" being
discussed here is what is refered to sometimes as "crippleware". Anyway, I
dunno...

But I digress

It was mentioned on the net before but there is an image of the sumex archive
on the listserver at listserv@rice.bitnet It is not a "complete" archive and it
is usually a few weeks behind sumex but it seems to be a good collection. What
I mean by "complete" is that older software (ie. > year or two) and some
indexes are not maintained.

Check it out. I got a WHOLE MESS'a NEAT stuff there including my wonderful
ADOBE screen fonts.
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