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Re: Patch spamming
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Patch spamming
- From: ade at greennet dot net (Andrew Evans)
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:26:05 -0400
- Organization: Software Contraptions Ltd.
- References: <199706032233.PAA00947@rottweiler.cisco.com>
> On 3 Jun 97 at 15:33, Tim Iverson wrote:
> > But, please don't subject all of us to 100KB of "patch of the day".
J. David Bryan wrote:
> I agree. I think that supplying links to where we can retrieve the patches
> would be more appropriate than supplying the patches themselves.
Just to offer another viewpoint, I don't mind that people are posting
patches to the list. It's much more convenient for me to get the
patches this way -- if I had to ftp them all, I'm sure I'd miss some
of them. I have a normal 33.6kbps dialup connection to my ISP, yet I
still only spend a few minutes a day downloading e-mail. As long as
people remain judicious about keeping the size of postings
reasonable, I don't see a problem. BTW, I've been on the list for
close to a year now, and this is the first time I've seen someone
complain about this. I tend to think that most people don't mind.
Andrew Evans
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