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From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Time for a New Computer: Should it be an Atari ST?
Message-ID: <3149@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Jul 90 13:42:17 GMT
References: <1990Jul24.151655.29463@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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From article <1990Jul24.151655.29463@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, by gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl):
> In article <1990Jul24.134702.11337@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:
> 
>>I'm sick and tired of you trying to crown yourself net.moderator for
>>this group.
> 
> I haven't appointed myself anything. I'm just trying to use a little
> common sense. Too bad you don't think before you post. Isn't it about
> time for you to start telling us how badly Atari is doing in the stock
> market?
> 

(Various diatribes and followup messages ignored.)

Hey Greg, Hey Chris,

Whatever you do, don't let anything anyone here says about you stop you
from posting to this newsgroup.  I for one find your battles vastly
entertaining.

There again, I don't pay for the net traffic to our site.

Seriously, folks, let's not get too worked up about this.  There's room
for both positive and negative sentiments about the ST, Atari, the
Tramiels (*especially* the Tramiels) etc.  I know I swing from one side
to the other according to how the machines I use are behaving today and
how frustrating my last encounter with Atari UK was.

What worries me more is that I got only one offsite reply to a previous
query about problems with our Mega/HD/Laser systems.  (Thanks, Robin of
Galadriel.)  Either there are fewer knowledgeable people around than I
thought, or (more likely) our problems are just too weird.  Maybe it's
about time to take Ken Badertscher's advice of last year, spread out the
chicken blood and dance round the machine.  Come to think of it, the
problem he suggested that as an answer to (a variant of the 'phantom
typist') hasn't gone away yet either.

I'd better stop before I get too firmly into Chris Mauritz mode.  :-)

Graham

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