Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!daver!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3500 ?? Keywords: sheesh! Message-ID: <1991Jan19.031542.14401@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 19 Jan 91 03:15:42 GMT References: <665@tronsbox.xei.com> <1991Jan17.050949.11038@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <694@tronsbox.xei.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 34 tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson) writes: > Actually, it has seemed to me that .advocacy was just the place to > shout silly names at people. As I HAD actually hoped to have a > discussion with a POINT I deliberately avoided that group. No, .advocacy is working about as expected; lots of stupid name calling, but also quite a bit of reasoned discussion and good technical information being exchanged. It's just that this kind of discussion is not at all interesting to people trying to leaen how to use the Amiga's they have _now_, and also inevitably spawns subthreads in which people have long lost their tempers, so a separate place has been provided to hold such discussions, however innocently they begin. > I will, however, respect the followup line and put the thread over > there and not worry about it. Thank you, the whole of c.s.a.* will be the better for it if everyone does likewise; almost none of .misc so far is appropriate to .misc, folks are still having trouble getting used to the idea of taking the trouble to target postings to the appropriate groups. > Just as a point, will ANY discussion of Amiga abilities and futures be > relegated to the "riot" of unreasonable flaming in .advocacy???? I > happen to feel that these topics deserve a little better than that. I hope all are relegated to this "riot"; lots of CBM folks participate here, and "discussion" seems inevitably to turn to advocacy at the drop of a hat. If you want to talk about what the Amiga should be rather than what it is, .advocacy is the place. It really isn't all that bad, so far, and the other groups are already better for having this discussion here. Kent, the man from xanth.