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From: CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Thank you, John Norstad
Message-ID: <90039.150038CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 8 Feb 90 20:00:38 GMT
References: <3574@accuvax.nwu.edu> <3861@hub.UUCP>
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In article <3861@hub.UUCP>, 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (GurgleKat [Pete Gontier])
says:

>From article <3574@accuvax.nwu.edu>, by jln@acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad):
>
>> I have absolutely no artistic talents.
>
>Ha! Programming is an art. That makes you a master.

Seconded!  Having somehow managed not to say this before, here it goes:

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  John Norstad, I do not know how the Disinfectant project came to be.
  However, you and your colleagues have managed to produce the finest
  piece of protective software available, by a long shot.  This much
  goes without saying, in many ways; there are simply no other utilities
  which perform anywhere close to as well as Disinfectant.

  But your contribution has been greater than this, much greater.  You
  have saved countless hours of work, and perhaps tremendous amounts of
  money in the form of lost productivity, in providing so comprehensive,
  easy-to-use, and readily-available a tool for protection and repair
  of Macintosh software.  You have saved a great many people from a
  great deal of anguish.

  I sincerely thank you, John Norstad.  Your efforts have been deeply
  appreciated.

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Aside:  this has been posted to a general-readership group in the hope
that the rest of you out there will step lively and get in touch with
Northwestern University and John Norstad, and tell them just how much
time, money, blood, sweat, and tears Disinfectant has saved you!

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Christopher Tate                           | Mercy (noun):
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  Bitnet: cxt105@psuvm                     |  thumbs-up on your opponent at
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