SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (04/27/88)
>IN A RECENT INFO-APPLE MAILING, TED HOLDEN QUOTES HIS FRIEND: > >> 1. Toy keyboards which look like something you'd expect [remainder mercifully deleted, and that's what this is all about] Even when the original message isn't banal, I really don't need to see the WHOLE THING repeated ad nauseum! This is a general plea to PLEASE make general use of your editors ("Gentlemen start your editors!"). Yes, it makes sense to replicate enough of the previously posted message so that the reader can follow the new comments, references, and so forth, but for goodness sake, who needs a repeat of 47 lines of what was BORING in the first place in order to get the idea? May I recommend a simple rule-of-thumb? If the replicated text is longer than your additional comments, you ARE including too much of the original and should *DELETE* most of it. Case in point: do you recall the message referred to in the 3 lines duplicated above (bet you do)? Brevity is the soul of wit (said the pot :-). If you keep the rehashes short, I'll forgive you for not using a spell checker nor proof reading (I'm guilty of that too). --------------------- Disclaimer: The "look and feel" of this message is exclusively MINE! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut
TMURPHY@WPI.BITNET (04/28/88)
I don't think my classmate Rick got the true spirit behind Ted Holding's
message. True the message was a bit overzealous, but many of the comments
were true of the early Macs (joke of a keyboard, programming methods, tiny
screen, no alternate user interface). But flaming the Mac wasn't the point.
Flaming Big Red (aka Apple Computer Co.) was. Maybe the message was
'childish and immature', but I've heard many similiar comments directed at
PC's and other machines, mainly by Apple owners. If nothing else, I think
those people (not all Apple owners by far) deserved a taste of what the rest
of us have been getting from them.
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Electrical Engineering Dept.
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