Subj : Create message bases
To   : Marceline Jones
From : Kai Richter
Date : Sun Feb 28 2021 10:50 am

Hello Marceline!

28 Feb 21, Marceline Jones wrote to RICHARD MENEDETTER:

 MJ> Is there any reason why documentation is not included with the build ?
 MJ> Is it due to some elitist programmer contempt for non technical end
 MJ> users ?

No, the original golded author never had such attitudes, he was compeletely the contrary. The POTS call cost environment around the world was very complex. My cost table files were around 15 KB. That's why it was a difference if you distribute ~600 KB just because of an updated readme file or put the changelog into the executable distribution.

With the (size differ, my personal cutted versions)
goldref.txt    347231  9. Dez 1995
goldusr.txt    125188  9. Dez 1995
files golded had/have an excellent end user documentation.

The split distribution allowed the user to decide if he wants to pay the phone cost for the transfer or not. Thus it was very user friendly.

When golded went open source the voluntary code contributors continued those concept. Let me guess, they like coding much more than writing documentation. ;-)

Regards

Kai

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