sam@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Sam "SammyBake" Moore) (03/23/88)
I like to read comp.sys.ibm.pc for technical information, but lately it is full of opinions on law suits and pirating software. I don't condone pirating, and I have an opinion about the BIG law suit, but I don't think this is the place for it. If this is the place for it, point me in the direction of a news group that is about using the PC. -- Sam Moore ||\\ || //==\\ //==\\ || || NCSU Computing Center || \\ || || ||==\\ || || Raleigh, NC || \\|| || || || || sam@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu || \\ \\==// \\==|| \\==//
hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin) (03/26/88)
>I like to read comp.sys.ibm.pc for technical information, but lately it >is full of opinions on law suits and pirating software. I don't condone >pirating, and I have an opinion about the BIG law suit, but I don't think >this is the place for it. > >If this is the place for it, point me in the direction of a news group that >is about using the PC. > >Sam Moore >---------- A new news group wouldn't be a bad idea. Comp.sys.ibm.pc gets so much traffic that it makes access hard. My site uses the NOTES rather than NEWS interface. The sequencer for notes keeps track of the last access date and marks new msgs arriving at the site. If you have to exit out of notes before reading all the new messages, you have your choice of aborting or exitting normally. If you abort, the next time you enter notes, all the msgs you already read are still marked new. If you exit, the ones you haven't read are no longer marked. This group is getting too much traffic to consistently read through without interruption. (Sorry about the above description of something most of you already know.) Do others out there feel the same way? John Hardin hardin%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com --------