treid@MITRE.ARPA (07/23/86)
This will not solve your read need but may help a bit. Treat the new PD S/W announcements at simtel20 as your shopping list at your local RCPM. Ask your sysop to be looking for the new package or update. Many times, the RCPM may already have it. Put a message on your local RCPM asking for those who DO have arpanet access if they would please pick a library up off of simtel20 and upload it to the RCPM. All each community needs is one or two good deeders and the software will appear. The recent messages on uuencode and uudecode sources in Turbo Pascal also give hope in that libraries can be transferred in the mail with only a small penalty (33%). Now a message asking for a good soul to send it through the mail can be answered (though this has great possibilities for abuse - Keith Petersen: would you care to comment!?). Wrose comes to worse - everything in the simtel20 archives is also on Keith Petersen's RCPM in Royal Oak, Michigan (phone # not handy). On Saturday or Sunday or the deep of night, a 100K download will be only a couple of bucks. But back to the front: being nice to your RCPM sysop will keep him helping you. Remember: most sysops run their RCPMs as a hobby, many times an expensive hobby. They do a great service to all and rarely get the public appreciation that they deserve.