Re: A New Game for the GS!

[philip@labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)]

Richard King writes:

>The program is a Game, defined as a means of amusement or play, and it
>is New: that means is is not someone else's work, previously seen elsewhere.
>This is sufficient in both attribution and description for any reasonable
>person - those who wish to know more can unbinscii it and unshrink it,
>and they will find both a full description of the game and complete
>details of the author (namely, ME!) in the program.

  Some people do not have the privilage of a _free_ Internet connection,
and must _pay_ to download your game using their _modem_.  These people
would rather not waste their time and money downloading a game that they
were not interested in, did not run on their particular Apple, etc.  It
is therefore common courtesy to post a short article describing the
contents of the file(s) you are posting to comp.sys.apple2.binaries so
that they can decide whether they want it or not.

  I cannot imagine that people are going to complain about brief but
concise text descriptions of binaries, since that would seem to me to
be _fair use_ of that newsgroup.  Just as posting descriptions of GIFs
and JPGs in the picture newsgroups is considered fair use (and very often
requested).  Just put the description in part 0 of the posting and be
done with it.



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