Re: ASSET's New Catalog Listings (14-OCT-94)

[dsgrieve@jhawk.b30.ingr.com (david s. grieve)]

In article <19941019T172107Z.enag@ifi.uio.no>, Erik Naggum <SGML@ifi.uio.no> writes:
|> [info@source.asset.com]
|> 
|> |   	The STARS ASSET Reuse Library has recently added the following new
|> |   assets or new versions of existing assets.  You need to have an account
|> |   with ASSET in order to access these new documents and software.  More
|> |   information about ASSET, acquiring an account, and a hyper-text catalog
|> |   of our holdings can be found at the URL "http://source.asset.com/".
|> |   Information can also be obtained by sending email to
|> |   "info@source.asset.com", FAXing to (304) 594-3951, or calling
|> |   (304)-594-3954.
|> 
|> this does not belong in all the newsgroups it has stupidly been posted to.
|> 
|> if the "documents and software" had been freely accessible to all the
|> people who receive this marketing nonsense, I would not have objected, but
|> when you abuse the network goodwill to push your products, I sure hope
|> nobody out there will consider calling you except to yell unpleasant things
|> at the dweeb who decided to post this.  as is typical with such things,
|> however, there is no named person to hold responsible for this nonsense,
|> further indicating that they _know_ they are guilty.
|> 
|> #<Erik>
|> --

Just a quick FYI:
STARS stands for "Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems"
and is a DARPA (i.e., your tax dollars at work) sponsored program. The 
objective of the STARS program is to increase software productivity, 
reliability and quality by creating a software engineering enviornment 
(both tools and processes) that promote and facilitate software reuse. 
The STARS program is a leader in research and development in the area
of megaprogramming and software reuse.

I missed the original post but I don't see any mention of "products"
in the STARS clip. Further, the original post should be of general 
interest to developers and software engineers. I think Eric's flame 
is misdirected and I hope people _do_ check out what is available in
the STARS ASSET catalog.

By the by, I am in no way affiliated with the STARS program. I am
just familiar with some of their work.

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