Re: Getting Hierarchic CDev (was not a Wolf3d Bug)

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:

|>:    Richard Bennett has uploaded it to Delphi and GEnie, where paying
|>: customers can download it. If enough of the pirating jerks and liars
|>: apologized and left the csa2 scene, he might consider the internet a
|>: place where actual GS supporters are, as opposed to the bottom of the
|>: barrel for quality clued people.

hmmmm...  Nathan, you might with to re-prase that paragraph...  as it
stands, i'm EXTREMELY insulted...  enough to say that if the
generalization is intended, then i don't NEED any pompous
self-righteous ass-wipe like that, even if it means that i have to use
a horse-n-carriage instead of a Lamborghini.  (huh?  you think THIS is
a bad attitude?  ask me what i think about government...  <g>)

just because there are people (like me) that don't subscribe to {AOL |
GEnie | Delphi | C$} doesn't mean that we're not worth noticing.  by
the same token, the background of certain others, however one cares to
put it, shouldn't be grounds to punish those that HAPPEN to follow the
same newsgroup.

i don't know who this Richard Bennett guy is.  i don't know enough
about him to make a judgement of him.  however, if he thinks like your
paragraph stated, then all i can say is "if the shoe fits..."

that having been said....

Bill Scheffler wrote:

|>	What about those of us who can't possibly afford a second online
|>server (or ISP)?  It's fine if he doesn't want it on the net, but there
|>should be a place (like Shareware Solutions II?) that a person (with low
|>income -- aka a college student) can pick it up on a floppy for a couple
|>of bucks (assuming it's freeware/shareware).

i agree here.

all this division (Pay services vs. newsgroups) does is create
animosity.  what makes people think that all those Pay "Services" can
prevent certain people from getting in?  one never really knows who's
at the other side of the wire.  it was like that when BBSs were "the
thing", and it's STILL like that today.  without a camera on each side
of the conversation, you NEVER know for sure who you're talking to.
what's the point of trying to protect a program (or a set of 'em) from
certain people (whether the threat is real or imagined), when you
can't be SURE that they can't get the stuff?  do these guys drive to
the other person's house and shake their hand, then say "here you are.
i hope you enjoy the program!"???

after typing all that in and reading it (several times), i decided i
wasn't gonna erase it.  it's been a long time in NEEDING to be said.

you know who you are.

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William Smith
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