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From: bruceh@mentor.com (Bruce Holm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: comp.mac.binaries
Message-ID: <1990Jan4.175856.10581@mentor.com>
Date: 4 Jan 90 17:58:56 GMT
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From article <7208@ll1a.att.com>, by markn@ll1a.att.com (Mark Nettleingham):
> In article <126900136@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>> ...
>> They might just go to the SUMEX archives.  However, some people cannot
>> access the SUMEX archives.  These people will bitch like crazy.
> 
> Good idea! (and I don't even have access to SUMEX)
> 
> 	I don't think we are sure that people would complain, so
> far there has not been a single person supporting the posting of
> demo programs in comp.mac.binaries.  However, there hasn't been a
> lot of people complaining either.

I support the posting of demo programs!  I don't see a problem with it.  I
can always junk anything I don't like after looking at it.  Demos give you
a chance to try before you buy.  I wish other parts of the commercial world
would give out demos...it would save a lot of grief for products I have
bought and was sorry later because it didn't do what I wanted it to.

If its clogging other stuff from getting out, then lets make a new newsgroup 
called comp.binaries.mac.demos.

--Bruce

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