D-ROGERS@EDWARDS-2060.ARPA (02/10/86)
Now that there is an INFO-ATARI16, it would seem to me that when a posting is ST specific, rather than of general interest to ALL atari owners - or at least mixed - that it should be directed to the new list. Those who insist on cluttering up the net with inappropriate postings rate in my book right along with the cretins who were perpetuating the ad-nauseum exchange about mac vs. st vs. amiga. Likewise, postings which are 8 bit specific - no general interest material - belong at info-atari8. der "...of course my opinion differs from 'most everyone else! If it were the same, i'd probably have to change it, lest i remain in error." -------
oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) (02/11/86)
In article <12182298461.18.D-ROGERS@EDWARDS-2060.ARPA> D-ROGERS@EDWARDS-2060.ARPA writes: >Now that there is an INFO-ATARI16... >Those who >insist on cluttering up the net with inappropriate postings rate in my book >right along with the cretins who were perpetuating the ad-nauseum exchange >about mac vs. st vs. amiga. Likewise, postings which are 8 bit specific - >no general interest material - belong at info-atari8. It's been my observation that a lot of the flaming and misunderstanding regarding ARPA connections has to do with the connection itself, and is not attributable to the "cretins" on either side of the electronic curtain. Being on USENET, I personally don't (and more importantly, shouldn't have to) take into consideration the fact that somebody may take my posting and route it into another network. After all, it's kinda rude to take a perfectly acceptable USENET article from net.micro.atari onto the ARPANET, and then complain about it. Likewise for us USENETters complaining about all the "delete me" and "add me" messages. Perhaps some education on both sides may help. Being admittedly ignorant about such matters, I wouldn't mind some educating myself. - Joel ({allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster)