Xref: utzoo news.groups:16025 comp.sys.amiga:46597 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga.questions Message-ID: Date: 31 Dec 89 18:49:13 GMT References: <7049@nigel.udel.EDU> <57b.02t179Uh01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <123.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> <25508@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 38 In article <25508@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: > Re: all the hoopla re: splitting comp.sys.amiga, it seems at least one basic > fact of human nature is being totally ignored: people are lazy. As any but > the most casual perusal of most newsgroups will show, responses quickly branch > off into other topics regardless of the "Subject:" line. And when they get too far off topic they get directed elsewhere. And, lo and behold, they often go there. But... > Additionally, I can see less technical content to be posted in the future due > to increasing plagiarism FOR MONEY of material posted to the Usenet. This is > why I have stopped posting technical material to comp.sys.amiga; I'm getting > weary and more than pissed off at stuff appearing in rags such as "Amazing > Computing" and the "Transactor for the Amiga" without due credit being given. Interesting. Care to cite cases? And I got a call from some nice guy in Europe who thought I was being taken advantage of. Some company was selling disks that contained (among other programs) "Browser". Doesn't bother me. Compute published Browser in a utility disk. They were nice enough to ask. Doesn't bother me. Did you put copyright notices on your messages? > Tough. A "modern" newsreader program doesn't have those problems. And if > it's too difficult to flip through a digest at 19,200 (or higher) baud using > the space bar (or other key), then you have other problems which are NOT > relevant to the net in general. Yep. Let them eat cake. Out here in the real world a 2400 baud connection is the best you can depend on for non-UNIX non-industry groups like comp.pc.*. I don't even get it here at Ferranti, and I'm the news admin. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com