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- From: bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: WB2.04 distribution solution
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.013620.6738@tronsbox.xei.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 01:36:20 GMT
- References: <50.2a6a4876@ivgate> <1992Jul20.224423.19195@tronsbox.xei.com> <davis.40.0@chem.canterbury.ac.nz>
- Organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc.
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- In article <davis.40.0@chem.canterbury.ac.nz> davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul20.224423.19195@tronsbox.xei.com> bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh) writes:
- >
- >>Commodore uses BIX for that purpose. As those people in the
- >>non-academic community know, it's a lot easier to get access to BIX
- >>than it is to a site that lets you ftp!<chuckle>
- >
- >ah, it's so nice to see americentrism is still alive and well!! Does anyone
- >in american have any idea of what a hassle (and huge expense) it is to access
- >BIX from outside the US? Even Compu$erve is cheaper to access than
- >BIX for people in the antipodes...
- >
-
- Ah, it's so nice to see that knee-jerk nationalistic attacks are made
- by people everywhere!
-
- FYI, a couple of years back when I was on BIX, one of the most
- prolific writers of text and software there was Sebastiano Vigna, who
- was (through some method apparently not available in New Zealand)
- connecting from Milan, Italy.
-
- Please excuse my Ameri-Eurocentrism!
-
- bill
- --
- * Bill Cavanaugh bleys@tronsbox.xei.com *
- * *
- "That whole thing about the 'child within' I've always
- felt to be kinda stunted in a way."
- Tim Burton (speaking to Bob Costas)
- XY + XX = :-)
-