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From: ecphssrw@solaria.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Guys in The Trenches
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Date: 21 Dec 88 20:21:09 GMT
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In article <10078@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes
a great deal that makes sense about bugging the people who work so hard on
the guts of our wonderful computers.  Just a couple of additional comments:
 
>It'd be a shame for them to leave out of exasperation.

Depends on definition of "leave."  I for one would certainly understand it
if they unsubscribed from comp.sys.amiga.  I've done it once or twice
myself, but backed off again.

>assume that *EVERYTHING* will change under 1.4, and plan for a rev.

Again, myself, I almost automatically skip all "Do this for 1.4" messages.

> Bug Reports

When deciding whether to submit one, do *everything possible* to make
sure the bug is legitimate and not just a quirk of your setup.
Example of my own: I informally reported an apparent TxEd+ bug to
Charlie Heath, only to find later that about 20 bytes of my working
copy of the program had somehow gotten corrupted; getting a fresh copy
from the distribution disk (actually my backup of it) solved the
problem. 

>	Rumors about the A?000:  They are just that: rumors.

And they do a great deal of harm, as Gail Wellington notes in the
latest AmigaMail.  How?  By causing people who might otherwise buy an
Amiga *now* to wait for what's coming next. 

>	Commodore Advertising:  No one reading this group has any control
>over that.

Not quite true.  I noticed Paul Higginbottom around these parts again,
after an extended absence from the net because It Just Took Too Much
Time.  But, we professionals should accept that Paul's professionals
know much more about ads then we do, and Leave Them Alone (though a
pat on the back doesn't hurt :-) ).
-- 
Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge
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