C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) (12/22/89)
UNLESS you have in no way contributed to the recent Apple/Mac/Xerox/80xxx/etc
'discussion', *please read this*:
I don't know why people feel obligated to post and cross-post all this drivel
about 'Macs are easy to use', 'Oh yeah! Is <blahblah> easy?!', etc. What I
want to see as a reader of comp.sys.amiga is postings concerning the *Amiga*.
Some may argue (please not on Usenet!!!) that the Apple/Mac/NeXT/Xerox flame
wars and the IBM/80xxx/68xxx/blahblah flame wars are valid additions to the
traffic on comp.sys.amiga, but I strongly disagree. The 'discussion' that was
started with the post about 'Xerox Sues Apple (Finally!)' has now become a
very worthless waste of bandwidth. Please STOP and/or restrict further
'discussion' to email.
On the subject of cross-posts, comp.sys.amiga{.tech} is(are) the only groups I
read. I don't have access to the other groups, and frankly don't want it. I
have seen similar flame wars in the moderated atari group that is collected in
a digest-file on this machine (UMCVMB); now I know how some of the Atari people
feel.
Oh...sure, if I was reading comp.sys.amiga on a Unix box or whatever with real
news software, then I could just skip/kill all this garbage. BUT I am reading
this stuff thru my Amiga on an IBM 4381 non-UNIX machine. Each and every post
is sent to this system, and I read/skip thru all of it. Maybe I could get my
friend (who sends me the posts) to kill all the Apple/IBM stuff, but there may
be valid AMAX or Bridgeboard info in there. Plus, the easier/proper thing
would be for all of you who wish to continue the aforementioned 'discussion' do
so thru email! Thank you, and I am sorry that I wasted some more space with
this post.
# Baird McIntosh (2nd yr CS/MATH) -- "Sure, *sue* me; you WON'T get Ami!" :-) #
# INTERNET: c503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu <-or-> BITNET: c503719@umcvmb.bitnet #
# "You can keep your toy soldiers to segregate the black and white, but when #
# the dust settles and the blood stops running, how do you sleep at night?" #