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From: woody@tybalt.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody)
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Subject: Re: Stupid question to Amiga Users...
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Date: 29 Oct 90 18:30:54 GMT
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In article <40715@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes:

	[stuff deleted about why healthy exchange of hardware info is good]

	Sorry; lost my temper.  Let me try again.

	What I want to see eliminated are the following types of posts:

(1)	*ALL* messages saying "machine *X* is the best damned machine in
	the whole world, so there!"

	The penalty for this should be the immediate confiscation of that
machine and replacement with a TRS-80 Model 1 Level 1 with 4K RAM and tape
drive.

(2)	Any and all messages saying "for the price/performance ratio,
	you're stupid to buy *X*."

	The penalty for this will be immediate replacement with a VAX 750
and an unpaid customer support bill due immediately.  Remember: decisions
to buy a particular machine sometimes have nothing to do with price/
performance ratio; calling someone stupid for making a valid decision
is simply imflamatory.

(3)	Any and all messages classifying a particular group of users
	in any particular way, either good or bad.

	The penalty for this is forced attendance of any Apple seminar
lead by an Apple tech support person, if you don't use Apple products,
or lunch with Steve Jobs if you *are* a user of Apple products.

(4)	Any and all messages concerning religious issues.

	There is no religion, just hardware.  And there is no bad
hardware; just hardware which suits a purpose better than another.

	There was a person way back when who wanted to know if he
could detect a Macintosh emulator to disable it.  My only responce to him
is to put the following message into his technical documentation or
user's manual:

	"We do not endorce, nor can we support, non-Apple products."


	My only point is this:  there is enough religion over in the
Saudi desert to start World War III.  We don't need the religion infecting
comp.sys.mac.misc, or *any* newsgroup over here, too.

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