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From: phoenix@genat.UUCP (phoenix)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: StarDate: March 14 A Toast to Einstein
Message-ID: <2611@genat.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 11:38:14 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 23 11:38:14 1986
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References: <12382@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <158@rtech.UUCP> <2961@sunybcs.UUCP>
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Organization: Phoenix Temporal Restorations, Ultd.
Lines: 43
Keywords: tripe or value for your money
Summary: pro/con

In article <2961@sunybcs.UUCP> ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin) writes:
>> > Am I the only one who finds the tripe
>> > emanating from "StarDate" to be often annoying?
>> > 
>> > ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
>> 
>> Am I the only one who finds complaints about a free service annoying?
>> -- 
>> Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
>[]
>   My feelings exactly! There are those of us who enjoy reading the StarDate
>articles...without them I would have missed several events that I enjoyed
>a great deal.  Mr. Gene Ward Smith, there are those of us out here in netland
>who have the ability to read what is on the screen and get information out of
>it, rather than nit-picking the "tone" in which the information is displayed.
>If you find it so annoying, why not just skip the article?  I find it rather
>pleasant to read StarDate and I enjoy the tone of it also since I am not an
>expert in astronomy and have been rather annoyed at the tone of other articles,
>those from the experts who assume that everyone else is as learned as they are.
>    And by the way, being of Italian descent, tripe is one of my favorite
>dishes...
>
>-- 
>     Adrian Zannin
>     SUNY at Buffalo Computer Science
>

I like StarDate as well, I find it presents good information in a "user-
friendly" :-) format.  Not *everyone* in net.astro is an expert, that's why
net.astro.expert exists, I imagine.  StarDate in *that* group would be an-
noying to some people I sure, since it would be couched in ordinary speech
instead of undecypherable mega-talk.  I vote to keep StarDate:  any information
you didn't know before is valuable.
mega-talk.
-- 
					The Phoenix
					(Neither Bright, Dark, nor Young)


---"A man should live forever...or die trying."
---"There is no substitute for good manners...except fast reflexes."
---"Never appeal to a man's "better nature".  He may not have one.
    Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage."