Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!bryan From: bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CRETIN MANOR MAIL Message-ID: <3589@cs.utexas.edu> Date: 14 Oct 88 19:23:47 GMT References: <7699@gryphon.CTS.COM> <3220@hubcap.UUCP> <7369@well.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.utexas.edu Reply-To: bryan@cs.utexas.edu Organization: Spam Detection & Removal Squad, Austin, TX Lines: 24 Spam-Content: Negligible In article <7369@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: =- =- Did this make sense? =- Yes, Leo, it did. Except that you left out Jerry's most irritating and destructive characteristic: He MISREPRESENTS himself as being knowledgeable about computers. Not that he claims to know everything, or even anything; instead he fails to point out from time to time that he knows next to nothing. Most people, including myself and probably you as well, tend to assume that if someone is published, they know what they are talking about. If the good Dr. would admit once in a while that he is, as it were, just typing with a sledgehammer in the dark, then novice users could safely extract the useful bits from among his marathon polemics on drive door latches and what have you, we "experts" could stop having nightmares about Pope J.P.'s Ex Cathedra interdicts against the Amiga, everything would be ducky, and I could stop typing such execrable sentences containing words like "execrable." ______________________________________________________________________________ /_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| _No dark sarcasm in the classroom|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|___ |____Teachers leave the kids alone__|_____|_____|_____|_bryan@cs.utexas.edu___| ___|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|{ihnp4,seismo,...}!cs.utexas.edu!bryan_ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|