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From: cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: In defense of the Amiga/Atari ST flame war
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Date: 3 Feb 88 22:07:55 GMT
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In article <1401@sugar.UUCP> karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>handful of people post about what a waste of time and/or net resources it is.
True, only a handful flame, many others merely unsubscribe or stop reading
netnews altogether!  Others, like me, sit back and wish it would stop, but
don't want to add to the waste of space and time by complaining.  However,
I find it hard to believe that anyone is actually in favor of the incredible,
dull repetition of arguments, personal attacks and idiotic assertions common 
to both sides of these wars!

>First of all, concern about the wasting of net bandwidth are overblown.
True, it's not actual net bandwidth that concerns most of us -- in comparison
to some of the bizarre things wandering the net, this stuff isn't so big.  It's
the consumption of NET READER BANDWIDTH that does it.  I am getting over 350
messages a day from four or five groups alone, and have no time to read 50
articles on why software piracy is bad/good, why it is bad to have multitasking
or crossposted light bulb jokes and the ensuing complaints!  Going away for a
weekend or two is a downright scary concept -- I'll never have time to catch up
and sift the few good messages out of the heaps of crud!!!  I generally don't
like moderated groups as they lose the quality of a discussion, but they are
starting to look better and better as the percentage of net.bull goes up.

>I mean, hit 'N' if you don't want to read it.  ("vn" users have 
>an even easier time of it.)
Fine, but when you have to hit N more often than not, something is wrong!

>It breaks up the monotony of all of the useful and informative Amiga messages 
>from the likes of Chuck, Fred, Bryce, Leo, George, Carolyn, Andy, Peter et al
Can't believe this -- the monotony of useful and informative messages!?!?!?!?!!
Aieee!  Give me more monotony, give me more boredom! Useful messages?  Perish
the thought!
							-- Jim