Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Marc Barrett Message-ID: Date: 12 Jan 91 06:19:53 GMT References: <910103.235921.CST.C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU> <179@mixcom.UUCP> <601@tronsbox.xei.com> Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 39 In article <601@tronsbox.xei.com> tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson) writes: > In article <179@mixcom.UUCP> cyaa01@mixcom.UUCP (Chris Klausmeier) writes: > > > >Why does everyone flame Marc Barrett? I've seen a few of these flame > >fests, and don't understand. It seems that he is concerned about Amiga's > >future, and is providing constructive criticism on ways that they could > >improve. Sure some of his posts might seem a bit caustic, but there are > >some valid points in them. > > Well, Marc has a few things going against him... > > 1) He has quite a few good points. > 2) because of (1) people want to try and shut him up. > 3) His posts are VERY caustic. But I suspect that in general > he doesn't have a real "way with people" and that this > isnt really a USENET thing. > 4) He hasn't figures (2) and (3) out yet. 5) The Amiga is a very complex machine and he isn't technical enough to understand what he's talking about. Luckily there are tons of net.idiots that are willing to listen to him. They tend to know less than him. I'm in MB and tron1's kill files. So I don't have to worry about them discovering this evil truth. Let's all agree to keep it a secret from them, huh? (giggle) > ========[ Xanadu Enterprises Inc. Amiga & Unix Software Development]======= > = "I hate you, take your things and get out of this house!!!!!" = > = (pause) - "Hold me!" ( same girl, elapsed time 6.5 seconds) = Make that, "somewhat sexist net.idiots". Tom -- tlimonce@drew.edu Tom Limoncelli "Flash! Flash! I love you! tlimonce@drew.bitnet +1 201 408 5389 ...but we only have fourteen tlimonce@drew.uucp limonce@pilot.njin.net hours to save the earth!"