Date   : Mon, 23 Jan 1984 08:47:20 EST
From   : Keith Petersen <w8sdz@brl>
Subject: Why MDM719 was released

Irv Hoff continues to ignore our requests for moratoriums.  He
irresponsibly issued an update which, in my opinion, was not fully
tested.  Rather than have a "broken" version out there, I elected to fix
his broken MDM718 and reissue it as MDM719 so we'd have something that
WORKS while we wait for Ron Fowler to finish Beta-testing his new super
modem program.  I'm sorry if this issuing of a new version upsets
anyone, but I've had it with Mr. Hoff's "ignore everyone else" attitude.
We on the Info-Modem7 mailing list tried to tell him about some bugs he
introduced in MDM717 when he "undid" some of Bob Plouffe's very nice
ruggedization of the program because he "didn't agree with it".
--Keith