Re: ANN: Retiring from A2 world - Good Bye All!

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"Steve Mentzer" <dropthistext.smentzer@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:HPML8.56$FZ2.87566@news.uswest.net...
> > Nathan Mates developed software! Joe Kohn sells the stuff! How is that
> > tearing down the community?
>
> Nathan mates and Joe Kohn (as well as some other A2 "dignitaries") did
> *everything* possible to take down online archives such as Asmiov, Ground,
> etc etc.
>
> There was a treasure trove of A2 software available, and yes, most of it
was
> commercial work, and the reality was (and still is) that the original
> authors/publishers either didn't care about it anymore, or simply didn't
> exist!
>
> Yes, there were some titles that were still being distributed/sold via
A2MG
> or Shareware Solutions. And yes, we all agreed that this was
inappropriate.
>

Well said, Steve. That's an excellent essay, and I agree with it 100%.
-Paul