holla@gt-eedsp.gatech.edu (Craig Hollabaugh) (07/20/89)
comments from a frustrated net reader. i have been reading the net news for about 2 months. Has it always been this busy? 50 - 60 messages daily = an hour. i wonder about the number of somewhat wasted work hours spent reading the news not to mention the costs of shipping the news everywhere. don't get me wrong, i like reading the news and i respond to questions if i think that i can help someone out. things i'm getting tired of. part 1 of 2 long signature files. come on, 3 lines should be enough all these replies to the net. if possible reply to person. all this cmd k, cmd f, is/was getting out of hand. "i have this and this and this and when i go to boot i get a system error." please do a little more goofing around before jumping on the net to post your problem. if your problem takes several paragraphs to explain, then it is probably a very isolated problem. hardware/software technical support from the company is a much better alternative. software costs money. quit wishing/bitching about free software. when you read the news, copy info from netters who know whats going on. when a problem comes up, address your questions to them. what really gets me going is "i don't read the news regularly,so ..." quite often if these people would read the news they would know the answers. after all this discussion about generating postscript, someone writes in about "i hear it is possible to generate ps with some type of key sequence." aaargh, here we go again. please read both parts before replying. craig holla@eedsp.gatech.edu