Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rutgers!psuvax1!schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu From: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Survey for NeWS Terminal Emulation Message-ID: <4528@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Date: 1 May 89 16:23:01 GMT References: <8904260139.AA24538@scarlett.sun.com> <30471@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <4526@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Reply-To: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Organization: Pennsylvania State University, Computer Science Lines: 20 In-reply-to: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) I wrote: >>I like NeWS a lot, but listen up Sun: Barry Shein knows what he is >>talking about!!! Bob Sutterfield wrote: >Appeals to authority (e.g. "Kirkegaard says...") are a basic form of >logical fallacy and carry no weight other than emotional. Quite correct. Let me clarify by saying that it was Barry's _reasoning_ in the posting from which I quoted that I support, and did not not intend to appeal to authority in any way. My comments were motivated by the fact that I like NeWS a lot, but am unhappy with some of Sun's tactics in promoting it, and was happy to see a posting that echoed my own feelings. Certainly, seconding an opinion one agrees with is not an unreasonable action, especially in response to a request for input. -- Scott Schwartz