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From: larry@macom1.UUCP (Larry Taborek)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware
Message-ID: <5002@macom1.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 90 15:51:13 GMT
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From article <18063@rpp386.cactus.org>, by jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II):
> 
> You aren't the official spokesman for what USENET is or isn't.  Quit
> pretending you are.
> -- 
> John F. Haugh II                     UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh

An Excellent point John,

(IMHO) Usenet is lots of different things to lots of different
computers and lots of different users.  Some sites/users will welcome
shareware and use it without payment, Somes sites/users will use
shareware and pay for it, and some sites don't want to carry
shareware at all.

I think that we could give everyone a solution that they could
live with if we had a shareware news group.  In that way sites
that didn't want to carry it wouldn't have to, and sites that
want shareware would receive it (or arrange to receive it).

Hope this helps...

Larry
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