Date   : Tue, 02 Oct 1984 09:53:25 EDT
From   : David Towson (SECAD) <towson@Amsaa.ARPA>
Subject: Re: xlisp info request

Jim - In regard to your query concerning David Betz and XLISP, I hope the
attached message will be helpful.


Dave
towson@amsaa.arpa

Date: 28 Apr 83 10:52:46-PDT (Thu)
To: info-micro@brl.arpa
From: David Betz <decvax!betz (David Betz)@ucb-vax.arpa>
Subject: New distribution policy for XLISP
Article-I.D.: decvax.524
Received: from Usenet.uucp by SRI-Unix.uucp with rs232; 29 Apr 83 1:34-PDT

I have received a large number of requests from people who have not received
parts of the last XLISP distribution.  For a while I was honoring requests
to send individuals the files that they were missing.  Then, when that became
unreasonable due to the number of requests, I reposted several of the
original files.  Even then I got requests from people who hadn't gotten either
the original version or the redistributed version.  Because of all of this I
have decided that net.sources isn't a reliable way of distributing a program
as large as XLISP.  Rather than replying to each of the people who sent me
mail, I am sending this news article to explain my next plan for distributing
XLISP.  Would anyone who wants a copy of XLISP please send me a stamped,
self addressed SSSD floppy at the following address:

       David Betz
       Digital Equipment Corporation
       110 Spit Brook Rd.
       Nashua, NH  03062

Please specify whether you want the disk in CP/M format, RT-11 format,
VMS format, or UNIX (tar) format.

I'm sorry about this being a less than convienient form of distribution,
but I don't think that its fair to the rest of the users of the network
to continue sending the large XLISP distribution files over and over
again just so that the few people who didn't receive them correctly the
first time can have another chance.

David Betz
decvax!betz