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From: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Subject: Re: The ATARI ELITE ST ORG. of Pittsburgh.
Message-ID: <9002160011.AA02563@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
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Date: 16 Feb 90 00:10:22 GMT
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In article <2993@water.waterloo.edu>, ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:
>
>With some trepidation, i dare to rush in.  (Mr Karbowsky, flames to /dev/null.)
>
>More than one person has said to me that they thought this board
>(The ATARI ELITE ST ORG. of Pittsburgh) has pirated software.
>
>In the past maybe this was so, maybe not.
>Does anyone have some concrete evidence?
>
>Mr D.Karbowsky denies it is so:
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>In article <4125@cuphub.cup.edu> kar7481@cuphub.cup.edu (Dan Karbowsky;AtariEliteOfPghPa bbs412-384-5609) writes:
>
>	[ nasties deleted ]
>
> | The Auto-Boss/Atari-Elite ST-BBS is *NOT* a pirate board.  Why would you
> | assume such anyway???  
>
>	[ more nasties deleted ]
>
>If this is a prirate board, perhaps it should be shut down.
>If not, accusers should stop throwing stones.
>
>
>Does the board give the impression of being a Pirate Board?
>Does it promise expensive software?
>
>Or, I wonder, is there another board in the neighborhood that has
>a similar name?
>
>
>
>-- 
>    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
>	ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca	ljdickey@water.BITNET
>	ljdickey@water.UUCP		..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey
>	ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu	

I believe the confusion was caused by the word ELITE in the name.  Most 
pirate boards appear to be normal unless one has 'elite' access.  Then 
the pirated programs can be downloaded.  The section of software that is
pirated (on the BBS HD) is usually called the 'elite' section.  You would
be suprised at the number of so-called 'normal' boards that are actually
pirate boards of some degree.  As always, this is IMHO.


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