dodgson@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Harry Dodgson) (03/05/91)
Followup to: alt.flame Why is it that once a month some poor unsuspecting person asks the net to compare a feature on machines X and Y and this generates tons of replies? Some of the replies are concise, factual, and unbiased. Most are suitable for Flame Wars use only. And after a few days of these start the posts that say to stop posting the flames. Isn't there some way to circumvent this procedure - like having a group called alt.computers.comparisons or more in line with what gets sent alt.computers.mine.is.best ? This is most true for the three 680X0 based types that this is posted to. I don't see why there needs to be such fierce competition and flaming between these machines. They all do about the same thing in about the same amount of time. The low-end ones have equivalent processors and clock speeds. The high-end ones too. They all have keyboards and mice standard. They have varying sound and graphics, which is where most of the flames get started. A lot of articles start out with the popular "IMHO". Not when comparing computers!! Until the next round of idiocy... -- Harry Dodgson Jr. | Internet dodgson@sol.cs.wmich.edu -(35.132.4.2)- Western Michigan University | UUCP ...uunet!sharkey!wmichgw!wmu-cs!dodgson Computer Science Department | Voice (616) 387-5803 Kalamazoo, MI 49008 | Office 4420 Dunbar Hall
klopcic@amethyst.bucknell.edu (KLOPCIC JOEL THADDEUS) (03/05/91)
I think that all Computer Supremacy Flame Wars are supposed to be redirected to .advocacy. That's why advocacy really is there, IMHO. JTK Is this the last post?
francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) (03/06/91)
In article <1991Mar5.132143.16549@sol.cs.wmich.edu> dodgson@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Harry Dodgson) writes: Isn't there some way to circumvent this procedure - like having a group called alt.computers.comparisons or more in line with what gets sent alt.computers.mine.is.best ? No, of course not. We have alt.flame; we that doesn't mean all our flames go there. (Oh, wouldn't that be wonderful! AI NNTP servers that would read our posts, decide if they're flames, and redirect them to alt.flame! :-) (No, that would be hellish. But it would cut down on time reading this stuff. :-) -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/