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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <1991Jun16.004537.21920@uwasa.fi>
Date: 16 Jun 91 00:45:37 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.172306.19724@uwasa.fi> <1991Jun15.222200.26041@cbfsb.att.com>
Followup-To: alt.flame
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <1991Jun15.222200.26041@cbfsb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes:
:
>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.

Agreed, certainly.  But please also note that we have a real danger
of entering in a flame contest when who said, meant, and did what
gets this merrily tangled.  (Followups thus to alt.flame). 

>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.

Agreed and understood.  But it still does not cast a sinister
shadows on the Icelandic culture in my mind. 

>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...)

My compliments for the cleverly constructed insult.

P.S.  How about initiating a dispassionate discussion about the
issue of these upper ascii problems say in comp.editors.  Anyone?

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Prof. Timo Salmi
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School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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