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From: ez002644@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Eric W. Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: If I read one more Next article. . .
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Date: 5 Feb 91 01:46:37 GMT
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From article <1991Feb4.145736.25925@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, by kpmiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Kent P Miller):
> If I read one more article about the Next, I'm gonna puke.
> 
> This is a macintosh news group, I read it to get news about MACINTOSH.  If
> you want to hear about the wonderful Next, read comp.sys.mac.next.  If you
> want to post about how stupid I and probably half a million other people
> were in the past few months who bought a Mac, that's a different story.
> :)
> 
> Please, find another place to talk about this.
> 
> KenT
> 
> Kent Miller
> KENT@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu
> Bitnet -> KENT@uokucsvx

I agree with Kent. BUT, before some offended person flames me, let
me explain myself. I am Computer Science student who uses a variety
of different machines. At least once a month I do work on Silicon
Graphics personal Iris workstations, DECstations, Sun workstations,
Nexts, and on Macs. I have a mac at home, because not having a TCP/IP
connection wouldn't work great with a Next. (At least in my opinion.)
Besides, I bought a used mac for nowhere near what I could get my hands
on a Next machine for. Ok, on to the explaination. I like cartain
things about all of the computers that I have mentioned above, BUT,
I read comp.sys.mac.***** because I WANT TO READ ABOUT MACS. When
I want to read about Nexts, I read the Next users newsgroup. When I
want to read about Suns, ... etc. The reason we have seperate newsgroups
rather than lumping them into one large chaotic mess, is, to alleviate
the problem of sorting through all of the articles that you don't
want to read. When I am in comp.sys.mac.***, I don't want to read
an article better suited for comp.sys.next.

Just my extremely humble opinion.


Eric W. Douglas                        * internet: ericd@csufres.csufresno.edu
Dept. of Computer Science              *           ez002644@deneb.ucdavis.edu
California State University, Fresno    *