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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: InfoWorld review of Amiga
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 01:40:05 EST
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Reply-To: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
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This is a public apology from myself to John Gilmore.  I did not at all
intend my response to your response as a "flame" about you, but about
many of the newsgroup articles in general.  I did not feel that your
response was a flame on me or my article at all, and I tried to make it
clear in my response (to your response).  An example of the type of article
that got me upset about flaming was (I will not mention names) one in which
some guy responded to another guy's article and said things like
> I think.....
>>There you go thinking again...
etc., etc.

I realize that I should have probably used a different article than your
response to make my feelings about some of the horrible (my opinion)
flaming that does go on.

I wanted everyone interested in this newsgroup to see this apology and to 
know that I sent you mail about your response as well as responding in
my (to some, I hope not to you) offensive way.  I respect everyone's
opinions in the newsgroup, but I imagine someone new (like I was a
couple of weeks ago) reading through the Amiga articles, seeing all this
public flaming of individuals and their statements, and getting turned
off or just being too afraid to participate.  This was my only concern
when I wrote my statements, not really anything in particular about 
your response.  Like I said, I am glad that my article got a response,
and I encourage anyone who cares to respond also (but please state your
opinion, and keep the flames off of individuals).

By the way, I want to correct one of my statements in my original article:
>> My amiga crashes when I pass too many arguments to a function...
		should be
>> My amiga crashes when I pass the WRONG ARGUMENTS to certain functions, not
because of any particular bugs in the OS...

I will try to be more explicit in the future (for those of you who seem to
require it of me) about such things.

I think we have a real good thing here - an excellent way to share ideas,
code, strategies, etc.  However, it can also be a bummer sorting the
good stuff out of the ashes.  So John, please accept my apology - I meant
no offense to you (and tried to make that clear).  

mike schwartz
	"Remember, only you can prevent forest fires."
		--- Smokey the Bear ---