On Saturday, March 30, 2002, at 11:09 PM, the pickle wrote:
> At 15:40 +0000 on 30/03/02, Mark Benson wrote:
>
>> actually meant to post it to the Compacts List. We are trying to stamp
>> out r at least the use and distribution of Mode32 1.2 and similar
>
> 'preciate the effort. Was going to do the same thing myself.
When I say we I mean I, I don't appear to speak for the rest of the
list, in fact I got a beating just for doing this, several people went
schitzo and blamed me for the inevitable downfall of the UMICH archive,
which I might add hasn't moved a blind inch in the mean time.... Make of
that what you will, I just told you the facts, no crap stirring included.
>> versions in order to protect users from it's potential issues with OS
>> 7.5. Does anyone know why 1.2 is still useful, does the later version
>> ont work on early system version?
>
> Works fine; there's no good reason to keep 1.2 around. UMich probably
> didn't notice and since it's so old, got lost in the shuffle.
'S what I thought. No one I asked could think of a reason to keep it so
why bother. Having old software available is great and I would never
deny anyone the right but Mode32 1.2 is just darn-right dangerous and
unnecessary.
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