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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: Proposed New Newsgroup - comp.sources.shareware
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Date: 2 Feb 90 15:37:38 GMT
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In article <1202@utoday.UUCP> greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes:

| John, why not wait until the dust settles, a new newsgroup called 
| comp.binaries.shareware is created and *then* opt not to carry it
| or distribute it to your leaf nodes?

  It's nice that you assume this group will be created, but there are a
few of us who feel it is a solution to a non-problem. Demos and
crippleware shouldn't be on the net. Shareware serves a valid business
purpose (at least my management thinks so) and does not have the volume
for a hierarchy of its own (and putting all the shareware for all
systems in one group is, to say it politely, impractical).
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me