Date   : Thu, 19 May 1988 15:42:09 GMT
From   : bsu-cs!neubauer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Paul Neubauer)
Subject: z80 assemblers

In article <KPETERSEN.12399446959.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARPA> W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA
(Keith Petersen) writes:
>David, please don't post programs to Info-Cpm.  It causes many people
>to lose the entire Info-Cpm Digest because the file exceeds their
>allocated disk storage.  Everyone on this newsgroup can get files from
>Simtel20 either by FTP or netmail using the server at CICGE.RPI.EDU.
>
>me via netmail.  The best path from you will be
>    ...!uunet!simtel20.arpa!w8sdz
>--Keith

Keith,

We've been through this before with other proposals for postings of
programs.  Yes, there are serious problems with postings and those problems
are not going to go away.  You have good reason to discourage posting, but
your reasoning is FLAWED.  It is simply NOT TRUE that "everyone on this
newsgroup" can ftp.  "This newsgroup" includes many people (like me) who are
not reading INFO-CPM (a moderated internet (?) group), but comp.os.cpm (an
unmoderated uunet group).  The constraints are VERY different.  It is still
better to have the programs posted to Royal Oak, for example, than to the
net, but SIMTEL20 is NOT accessible to everyone.  I only wish I could have
access to SIMTEL20 or ftp from other sites, but I can't.  So please refrain
from making unwarrented generalizations about what "everyone" can or cannot
do.  This is not intended as simply a flame, but you and a (large) number of
other people from all of the various ends of "the" net do need to realize
that their little corner of the net is not the whole thing.

-- 
Paul Neubauer         neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP
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