Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!bellcore!faline!ulysses!mhuxt!ihnp4!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Ksh availability? Message-ID: <5306@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 19:48:10 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.5306 Posted: Fri Nov 6 19:48:10 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Nov-87 04:12:06 EST References: <238@ssds.UUCP> <147000007@tiger.UUCP> <3019@psuvax1.psu.edu> <1781@chinet.UUCP> <688@unmvax.unm.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sources.d Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 23 Much quoting from <688@unmvax.unm.edu> by mike@turing.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) deleted; subject was a response to article <1781@chinet.UUCP>, where ignatz@chinet (Dave Ihnat) suggests that the 3B2-vs.-Sun discussion be relegated to "net.religion"... Um, Mike, if I may intersperse a few comments in this discussion: The "net.religion" bit is a comp-groups joke of sorts. Don't take it literally. (Although your comment about it converting you to atheism can be likened to my statement below; read on....) As to trying to prevent such arguments: while some people CAN be converted by these discussions, in general (and I've read some pretty long, verbose, and wasteful ones since I joined the net) they are just the flames of fanatic users of X against the fanatic users of Y and vice versa (for X and Y substitute , , <3B2, Sun>, etc. ad nauseam), with few people being converted to anything except the use of rn and its KILL files. The cost to the backbone to transmit all of this excess verbiage just to convert two people per month-long flame war is just not worth it. -- Brandon S. Allbery necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu {harvard!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal,uunet!hnsurg3}!ncoast!allbery Moderator of comp.sources.misc