TB > 'Scuze me, Joe, but Nathan posed the question in the first place -- how
TB > people could get their hands on the "prizes" without entering the contest.
TB > If I just made the stuff available to everyone for free, what's the point
TB > of the contest? (And "available to everyone" means disk duplication,
TB > mailing, etc. -- the stuff is around 750K, nothing I'd want to download
TB > if it were offered.)
HS > Hey, if there's a market for something -- why not?
750Kb really is very commonplace today, Tim -- 3 or 4 minutes maybe of Xfer
time. And as you know, XPL sizes down very dramatically when ZIPped.
Alternatively, you could snail a single disk to Nathan for placement on the
server's FTP, where we could all easily retrieve it. But you might clarify
whether this is a commercial product or not? I took at face value your
original statement that "the main point . . . is to share with each other
and have fun". "Sharing" is by definition a free act ("shareware" and like
perversions of sense notwithstanding) and, in your formulation, it was to
be bi-directional too ("...with each other..."). Therefore I conclude that
Joe misunderstood you (that you were protesting the costs of multiple
disks+postage), and that Harmon's defense, however crass, of commerce and
classified ads in tele-conferences, however loathsome, is moot? Please
correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that "the point of the
contest", as you put it, is to have some fun first, and then, when it's
over, you show us your stuff -- right?
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Robert J. Holmgren
holmgrn@ibm.net
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