sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) (06/11/89)
In the referenced article, there's various ranting and raving
about Brad's new ClariNet scheme, including
>B.T. Go Away! (Permanently, please).
Do people stay awake at night thinking of ways to get mad at brad?
He's one of the few people on Usenet who's actually
thinking about the net, and trying to do something about it.
If you don't like the service he's offering, don't
subscribe to it, but there's no need to bad-mouth him
at every opportunity.
I for one am glad that someone like Brad is taking the time to
work out some actual alternatives to what we have now, I know
he may rub a lot of people the wrong way but at least he's trying
to do *something* instead of sitting back and complaining any time
anyone suggests something different, which is all we ever hear
from a lot of the net community.
I wish Brad well with ClariNet.
..Steve
Steve Hayman Workstation Manager Computer Science Department Indiana U.
sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (812) 855-6984scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) (06/11/89)
In article <21929@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes: >In the referenced article, there's various ranting and raving >about Brad's new ClariNet scheme, including >>B.T. Go Away! (Permanently, please). > >Do people stay awake at night thinking of ways to get mad at brad? >He's one of the few people on Usenet who's actually >thinking about the net, and trying to do something about it. >If you don't like the service he's offering, don't >subscribe to it, but there's no need to bad-mouth him >at every opportunity. I Think the problems here is the cross posting to news.* newsgroups. If he left it in comp.newprod I do not see any problem with his self publicity. It is my understanding comp.newprod is for new products, which this is, but I do think it is in bad taste to cross post it here. (NOTE: I have not "bad mouthed" him in the past). Brad, next time post it to comp.newprod and if you want to build an audience, put a little blurb in the news.* groups to check comp.newprod for more information. I think this is a *little* more appropriate and would be a *little* more acceptable to net.reader (as well as us regular readers of the news.* groups). -- scott barman {gatech, emory}!dtscp1!scott