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Subject: Re: Corrections and an Apology
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Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 09:08:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 19 09:08:00 1986
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> /* Written 11:01 am  Nov 17, 1986 by forrest@blia.BLI.COM in uicsrd:comp.sys.amiga */
> I apologize for several factual mistakes in my recent submission
> about my initial comments about the Amiga. Yes, it does have pattern
> matching, and directories are deleted with the delete command. ...

> I'm going to compose a general response to the replies I've gotten
> but I wanted to apologize for my mistakes first.
> Jon

Jon, why did you write the initial note in the first place?  These types
of notes displaying ignorance and usually loathing get sent to every bboard
about every computer.  I am stimied as to why.  I know I wouldn't own a
C64, for example, for a number of reasons, but I wouldn't just use it for
a short time then whip off a T=451 degree F flame to a forum for C64 owners
saying, "hey your pleeby machine is a wanky piece of ... ."  You must have
expected replies back scorning you.  Indeed, you admitted you had read such
notes in the past and thought the posters were anally retnetive (a paraphrase).
Why did you do it?

There is a difference in my mind between complaining about the deficiencies
of a computer when it is compared with full knowledge of its features, and
making up ones mind on holistic and fuzzy first-impressions and then taking
these wet complaints to the machine's experts.  Computers are more complex
and layered than automobiles, yet people treat them with the same test-drive-
around-the-block philosophy.  All the layers of a computer are not apparent
from the users interface-- surely not without manuals.  Indeed, after driving
a Yugo around the block, would you whisk off a piece of air-mail to Yugoslavia
to the car's designers?  Since C-A and many developers read net.micro(comp.sys.
amiga), this is essentially what you've done.

Can someone help explain to me why these messages of the flavor of sending
the-owner-of-computer-bleb-mail-saying-bleb-sucks are so prolific across the
net?

						Tom