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From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Discussion topics (was Re: suggestion)
Message-ID: <402@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 7 Aug 89 17:17:32 GMT
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In article <1377.AA1377@caleb>, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
> Since I've been reading USENET (about 2 years or so), I've noticed that the
> Amiga newsgroups tend to repeat certain tangential topics every quarter or two.
> An incomplete list would include the always noisy, but rarely enlightening:
> 
>      1.  Piracy arguments

.. kind of inevitable in discussions about any computer. Perhaps this calls
for comp.misc.piracy (or comp.misc.flame?)

> 
>      2.  MCIBTYC (my computer is better than your computer) wars
> 

.. again inevitable. Since reading usenet, and from reading amiga echo mail
a while back, I've noticed that this usually starts when somebody with an atari
says something like "Multitasking is a useless gimmick and you have interlaced
hi-res graphics", so of course everyone jumps on the bandwagon. (I remember on
the Amiga echo for the longest time there was this one twit who would post once
every couple days, in response to non-amiga poeple's questions about Amigas,
"Ask them why you need a flicker fixer")              

>      3.  and lately, the "You can't buy it for cost of materials" arguments
> 

I don't see anything wrong with this kind of discussion. I mean, we all own
Commodore computers, so we're not used to paying much above parts cost! :-)

> I've probably omitted some topics, but you get the drift.
> 

[...]

> 
>                                         Jim Pritchett
> 
>                                         UUCP:  {attctc|texbell}!letni!caleb!jdp

I mean, we've got to talk about something. From my daily perusal of the new
messages, the Amiga newsgroup consistently gets more than any other comp.
group. Let's keep it that way! (The Amiga may not be the best computer there
is, but everything will be fine as long as we THINK it is!)

-- 
James A. Treworgy               "You should have seen me with the poker man,
jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu     I had a honey and I bet a grand,
jtreworgy%eagle@WESLEYAN.BITNET  Just in the nick of time I looked at his hand"
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