Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Why are Amigaoids hell bent on proving the Amiga is better ? Message-ID: <1991Jun27.004427.1469@ncsu.edu> Date: 27 Jun 91 00:44:27 GMT References: <3104@kirk.nmg.bu.oz.au> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 34 goose@kirk.nmg.bu.oz.au (Ralph Schwarten) writes: >The amigaoid who posted to the Atari group should >be strung up by his balls for such blantant and immature "amigaoidism". Absolute agreement. That was in very bad taste, going in totally uninvited. OTOH, if an Atarian had posted either a request for Amiga info OR had posted misinformation, THEN a corrective reply in that group would have made sense. Previously, ronald@ecl014.UUCP (Ronald van Eijck) had written: >If we all started to think positive and post some messages about the things >the Amiga is good at and its advantages over other systems maybee we can >change some new c.s.a.* readers mind and make him buy an Amiga instead of >another system. (that'll give new users without an advertising budget :-) Yes! I've spent many years watching how the views of computers owners towards each other have changed over time. One remarkable reversal has taken place on CompuServe: a year ago CIS Amigans had almost as bad a reputation as here. Yet now I see more and more Mac/PC types gladly asking for more Amiga info. Why? Because now the replies contain much more light than heat -- more facts (both good AND bad), plus a heckuva lot more objectivity and POLITENESS in respect to the other person's system, choices, needs. This is in stark contrast to the attitude you usually see here in .advocacy; and unfortunately, spilling over into other places as well: You need only glance around other net.groups every coupla weeks or so, and you'll find at least one thread titled "Amiga Fanatics - DROP IT!!" This is _not_ because others aren't interested in hearing about the Amiga, but because of the way in which many "pro-Amiga" postings are worded (eg: bash the other guy's machine instead of simply praising their own). This really pisses me off, because then the majority of GOOD Amiga owners (who'd like to seriously present their machine) have to first contend with the fallout left from fellow Ami users. Grr. - kev