26 Jan
1998
26 Jan
'98
12:39 p.m.
I agree 100%. I suppose I was one of the "off-topic" posters, because
I enjoy seeing a little bit of the people behind the text that scrolls
up my screen every night. I don't know what happened during Sam's
childhood to make him so anal, and I'm pretty sure I don't _want_ to
know! I read the list because it's fun to read about people's
experiences with computers, both in rescuing them from oblivion now,
and in learning about them in the first place. If I wanted static,
dead, impersonal knowledge, I'd buy a book; I'm here for the people
who care about the old machines as much as I am the machines
themselves. I was keeping my peace (even through Sam's implication
that I'm an AOL user...) until I saw the vitriolic heap of dung our
pal Sam dumped on poor Anthony (Wirehead); after that, I lobbed my own
little textual grenade into Sam's mailbox. It probably won't make me
more popular, but I don't think he should get away with trashing
people's feelings and experiences because he's too lazy to hit the
"next message" key a couple times.
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:52:29 -0500, you wrote:
Offtopic observation, last you'll hear from me
about it:
It seems that there was at least ten times more mail complaining about the
"offtopic" thread than the number of messages that made up that thread. Now
if it were up to me, I'd rather see a few "offtopic" posts than see all the
cat fighting going on because a few people want to complain publicly about
a thread, one in particular doing most of the complaining. Different people
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