andrew@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andy Biewer) (08/21/90)
People are starting to flame me now for my single post on a short-circuited conditional whim of network policy. I asked one simple question and got many simple--to--complex answers. Since the flow of responses would NOT stop, I posted to the net again saying that I had my answer implying that any continued posts would simply be redundant, but the responses kept coming in. My main reason for posting to the net as opposed to fronting the same question to the campus "help" (quotes are intentional) is because less than half of them know anything of what they are supposed to and even less of that group care to reply to any help questions. Another good reason is because it sparks a new topic and possibly a flavored conversation piece (it certainly caught the attention of a lot of readers.) A point was made that I was wasting money and network resources by posting that one letter because I didn't bother to look elsewhere. Well, my only response to that is, the weight of the amount of time that I use this thing for news is far less than it could potentially be for the amount of tax dollars and tuition I throw towards this state and the federal government for the support of the network. Any further flames are a waste of time and should be directed to /dev/null. Thank you, Andy B.
chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (08/23/90)
According to andrew@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andy Biewer): >A point was made that I was wasting money and network resources >by posting that one letter because I didn't bother to look elsewhere. You got that right. >Well, my only response to that is, the weight of the amount of time >that I use this thing for news is far less than it could potentially >be for the amount of tax dollars and tuition I throw towards this state >and the federal government for the support of the network. This point of view is self-centered. Network resources are not the issue; fetching one GNU program uses more network bandwidth than several Usenet articles. That is what it's there for, after all. The real issue is the thousands of programmers who spent twenty seconds reading, and perhaps several minutes answering, a trivial question that you wouldn't have needed to ask had you only Read The Friendly Manual. And all your tuition and taxes won't pay for one minute of one reader's time. >Any further flames are a waste of time and should be directed >to /dev/null. In your dreams, perhaps... -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>