richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (06/24/88)
In article <2164@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article ... richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >> This is to respond to the ``Binaries on the net'' thread that has Peter's >> knickers in such a twist. > >Actually, what has my knickers in a knot is messages that start off with >abuse and/or obscenities and follow up with deliberate misinterpretations >of positions I have taken in the past. Well there's a lesson here. Dont go crying ``The sky is falling, the sky is falling'' until you really can be assured the sky really is falling and maybe people won't yell at you. Maybe. Actually Peter, I only flame you to get fan mail. >This is known as flaming. Richard is one of the more creative flamers on >the net. God, how can I flame someone like this ? >End of subject. > >> a) the binaries group for the IBM-PC was made unmoderated. This >> was a very bad thing. First because taste and decorum went >> out the door - somebody posted a 770K COMMERCIAL DEMO called >> ``PSPICE''. > >How does this differ, except in magnitude, from the posting of the CLITE >demo to comp.binaries.amiga? And that group *is* moderated. Whilw I agree that CLITE was pushing it there were differences: 1) How many Amiga owners (600,000 of them) can use CLITE ? (100%) 2) How many IBM-PC users (14,000,000 and counting) can use PSPICE ? (Hmmm) 3) How functional was the PSPICE demo compared to CLITE ? 4) What were their relative sizes ? >By the way, *sugar* gets a full feed. We pass a subset of comp.* and news.* >to ficc. Once there, I take off my personal computer hat and put on my >big company uucp admin hat. I do have to keep justifying usenet to the >management of the company. I really wish certain people would make it easier >for me to do so. Piss and moan. The only person that makes it difficult is YOU. Don't carry groups you don't need/want and you have no tribble at all. -- "Oh great. I have no mouse. And I must click." richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard