hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (04/20/88)
>Yes, it also demonstrates the foolishness of sending all those binaries >over the net when they are easily available from BBS systems everywhere. Easily available everywhere? Would you like to tell me how they are easily available from a bulletin board here in Champaign-Urbana? I'm not arguing that this makes Usenet a good or efficient way to distribute Hypercard binaries. I am suggesting that people living in major metropolitan areas like the Bay area should not assume that what is available locally to them is typical of what is available throughout the country. >Michael J. Farren | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just >{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}! | dogmatize it! Reflect on it and re-evaluate > unisoft!gethen!farren | it. You may want to change your mind someday." >gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame Kurt W. Hirchert National Center for Supercomputing Applications
chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (04/20/88)
>Easily available everywhere? Would you like to tell me how they are easily >available from a bulletin board here in Champaign-Urbana? 1) Join your local User Group and get them from their floppy library. 2) If (1) isn't an option, join BMUG, BCS, A.P.P.L.E. or any one of half a dozen other national user groups and get them through THEIR floppy libraries. 3) If that isn't good enough, sign up for GENie, Delphi, or CompuServe and get them from THEIR libraries. Two of those options don't even require a modem, too. Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ Welcome to the Latrine Wall! What do you want to do, number 1 or number 2?
hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (04/22/88)
>>Easily available everywhere? Would you like to tell me how they are easily >>available from a bulletin board here in Champaign-Urbana? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >1) Join your local User Group and get them from their floppy library. >2) If (1) isn't an option, join BMUG, BCS, A.P.P.L.E. or any one of > half a dozen other national user groups and get them through THEIR > floppy libraries. >3) If that isn't good enough, sign up for GENie, Delphi, or CompuServe and > get them from THEIR libraries. >Two of those options don't even require a modem, too. >Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ > Welcome to the Latrine Wall! > What do you want to do, number 1 or number 2? Try reading my original comment a little more carefully. I didn't say that I didn't have alternatives or that Usenet was the best (or even a good) way to distribute this software. I merely objected to the assumption that everyone has access to BBSs with a wide variety of software. (Our local User Group has a pretty good library. Of course, they get a large part of it from either Usenet or INFO-MAC!) Kurt W. Hirchert National Center for Supercomputing Applications
len@netsys.UUCP (Len Rose) (04/22/88)
Someone else said:
Yes, it also demonstrates the foolishness of sending all those binaries
over the net when they are easily available from BBS systems everywhere.
In article <46100128@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
Easily available everywhere? Would you like to tell me how they are easily
available from a bulletin board here in Champaign-Urbana?
I'm not arguing that this makes Usenet a good or efficient way to distribute
Hypercard binaries. I am suggesting that people living in major metropolitan
areas like the Bay area should not assume that what is available locally to
them is typical of what is available throughout the country.
I said:
That is why pc pursuit is a good idea... If you have ever seen the bills
associated with passing news around you'd be more hesitant about adding more
traffic.. Your "bbs" in Champaign-Urbana are just as accessible as those in
the Bay Area ... all from Washington DC. .. I'd like to have everything ever
created to run on the Mac sent to my personal machine via Usenet also,but
I guess my laziness to go out and snatch them from sumex-aim or simtel20
can be overcome..People keep adding all these binary newsgroups and sooner or
later the whole mess is going to come crashing down.
If you think I am way off base,go talk to a backbone admin ...
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