werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (09/17/88)
In <IWM.88Sep15152433@asun3.ic.ac.uk>, iwm@asun3.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) writes: > In article <1248@ndsuvax.UUCP>, ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel) writes: > > What is the purpose of the announcements of software to be posted in > > Britain? Why are these announcements placed in comp.sys.mac? > > If ... no purpose other than to make non-Britishers jealous, please stop! > Now you know how those of us in Europe feel when we see `available by > anonymous FTP from xxx' on a software announcement. I guess that 99% of > European users cannot easily get such software. you are both rather silly! when I indicate that something is available for FTP, that tells those that can access it that they don't need to ask anyone else for the the favor to forward it by e-mail. others can ask a net-friend who has access to retrieve the file and forward it. Myself, I have yet to turn down anyone asking me to forward a file... ...of course, people who have nothing better to do but to air negative feelings towards exactly those people who are doing the net-community the favor of posting information about the existence and availability of files (and who can, and, probably, would respond favorably to a request to forward by e-mail) ... ...well, those party-poopers probably don't have the social skills to make friends over the net!!! "p-p-p-plllleaaasssse, don't hurt me ...." - Roger Rabbit -- --------------------> PREFERED-RETURN-ADDRESS-FOLLOWS <--------------------- (ARPA) werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet: 128.83.144.1) (INTERNET) werner%rascal.ics.utexas.edu@cs.utexas.edu (UUCP) ..!utastro!werner or ..!uunet!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner
iwm@asun3.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) (09/19/88)
>> Now you know how those of us in Europe feel when we see `available by >> anonymous FTP from xxx' on a software announcement. I guess that 99% of >> European users cannot easily get such software. > you are both rather silly! when I indicate that something is > available for FTP, that tells those that can access it that they > don't need to ask anyone else for the the favor to forward it > by e-mail. others can ask a net-friend who has access to retrieve > the file and forward it. Myself, I have yet to turn down anyone > asking me to forward a file... Gosh! I didn't mean to whine! (Well not much:-). Actually now that there is an archive of Mac stuff over here it makes much more sense for transatlantic traffic to be between archives rather than individuals. (Uk readers who havent been reading uk.general should log in to lancaster VAX1 as MICROS password MICROS and read the help files). Unfortunately we get charged for INCOMING (and outward) international mail, so I think the best solution must be: please post to comp.binaries.mac with world distribution.