robt@molihp.UUCP (Robert L Thurlow) (05/02/86)
In some recent postings with the subject line "Re: Key Board Buffer Expander Wanted.", there was this energetic exchange : >> >> Why is it that people with Inherently Bogus Machine company Pieces of Crap, >> CP/M, and other micros cannot confine their machine/system specific queries >> and discussions to the appropriate newsgroups? >> Are you really all that illiterate, or do you *ENJOY* irritating people >> who don't own the same machine you do? >> >> tom keller > >Tom, > Why don't you take your rude, narrow-minded, biased attitudes, and stuff >them. If you don't like an article, skip the remainder of it and read the next >one. > > G. C. Bingaman To Tom : take a valium. To George : ditto, and think about how often you have read the same messages, have had to try to figure out what some fool wants, etc. I would *LOVE* to not read things I am not interested in, and I use the wonderful "K" key in "rn" to help me. But all too often, the subject line tells me nothing about what machine is involved, what the subject really is, or whether the poster needs help, wants info, or has info to give. This means I have to scan message text to do the filtering. Many of the people doing these postings *ARE* using IBM PC's and seem to think everyone else in the world has one too. Please help out the majority of readers by thinking about the accuracy of your subject line, by saying "IBM PC" (or whatever) and and/or "MS-DOS" (or whatever) somewhere in it, rather than just mentioning "DOS" somewhere in the text. Also, there is a group for everything, and you will not get too many more interested people by cross-posting something to a less appropriate news group; you *WILL* make lots of people read the damned thing twice or three times, though. As far as I am concerned, unsubscribing from net.micro.pc should free me from reading most traffic about IBM PC's. I don't mind net.wanted*, that is there for good reasons. Most of us have limited time to read the news, and find very little fun in trying to decipher cryptic messages. # UUCP : ...!ubc_vision!molihp!robt Robert Thurlow # # My thoughts are my own, and are void where prohibited by law. # # "There was something fishy aboout the butler. I think he was a # # Pisces, probably working for scale." -Nick Danger, 3rd Eye #