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From: mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant)
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Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.222200.26041@cbfsb.att.com>
Date: 15 Jun 91 22:22:00 GMT
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From article <1991Jun15.172306.19724@uwasa.fi>, by ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi):
> In article <1991Jun15.124052.17827@cbfsb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes:
>>From article <3245@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, by einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason):
>>> I am sorry to say it, but that tiny editor, ALED, that was posted to
>>> c.b.i.p some time ago, goes straight to the waste basket!!!!!
> :
>>By the way, this seeming universal expression of counterproductive
>>disgust from Iceland gives me a poor impression of Icelandic culture.
> :
> 
> Now, now.  Let's not overdo things.  Finding fault (true or
> imagined) with some editor has no repercussions one way or the other
> at least on my views on the Icelandic culture.  Let's keep matters
> in perspective, ok. 

Perspective.  That's what we need.  Timo, when I think there's something
wrong with a program, but it's not all bad, first I ask whether other users
know something  about it I don't know, and then I ask the author.  I don't
call it crap, and I don't throw it in the wastebasket.  Very often the
authors of shareware are doing it for fun, and they like to hear comments
and suggestions, and like to be helpful.  Asking the author often gives
results.

The reason I attributed the complaining to culture is  that not just
one Icelander complained, but others joined in, and none suggested
that throwing it away and complaining on the net was inappropriate.
In my perspective, when the author seems likely to be helpful, it's
inappropriate.

By the way, I looked for Icelandic code pages in my MS-DOS 3.3 manual
and they have none.  Is MS-DOS crap?  (Perspective...)

							Marty
marty@hoqax.att.com		hoqax!marty
Martin B. Brilliant		(Winnertech Corporation)