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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: BLATANT ADVERTISING!! Try Nisus ;-)
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Date: 29 Nov 90 22:10:07 GMT
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In article <15851@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:

>And if the answer to the question is :
>
>You can't. 
>
>What have you done but waste net bandwidth without proposing a single
>useful alternative?

You've given a short response that the person who asked the original question
can reply to for a further clarification, one much shorter than the seemingly
canned blather that I've seen over and over again.  While I can kill later
messages, I can't anticipate that I'll see a Nisus ad (well, maybe I can) in
response to every query about Word.

Nisus doesn't do everything Word does, and I'd bet "Mr. Nisus" doesn't know
what-all Word can't do.  But he'll happily answer every single person who 
happens to have a question they couldn't find in the "FM" with the "try
Nisus" line.  LOTS OF DUPLICATION THERE, and I guarantee people are going
to continue to have problems with Word.

>Christ, you people are amazing.  If no one else is answering your
>posts at all, then you should be glad somebody is posting a solution,
>even if it isn't the one you want to hear.  If other people have

If nobody answers my question about the program I'm using, that is pretty
good indication that I may need another program, especially something so
commonly used as Word.

>posted solutions, use the 'n' key to move on to the next message (or
>does jOn slip by your office and wave a large truncheon in a
>threatening manner until you read his posts?).

Without a crystal ball, I'll have to read at least part of his post, and
I've already seen much of it before.  I suppose I could drop the guy in
my killfile, but he might have something to say of RELEVANCE.