I sent the following note to the UMICH archive.
> It has come to my attention, via another person, that you appear to be
> distributing an out-dated an potentially damaging version of the
> 'Mode32' extension for the Macintosh. The version, I believe to be 1.2,
> of this extension is situated at the following address:
>
> http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/system.extensions/cdev/mode32.sit.hqx
>
> We, as a community (the LowEndMac Compact Mac List community) would
> prefer you to either obtain the latest version of this extension,
> available from Apple Computer, or at least remove this version which is
> known to have serious issues under later versions of the System 7
> operating system for the Macintosh. I believe your 'Files That Crash'
> section in your policy specifies you will take care to not distribute
> items that cause crashes, well in this case the crashes are restricted
> to System 7.5 or later (Mac OS 7.5 onwards) and defintately do cause
> crashes and loss of data.
>
> Thank You for your help.
Is 1.2 more useful for older systems and OS versions? Otherwise why is
it still being distributed.
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