From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Subject: Re: A4000 article
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:35:56 GMT

Mike_Whalen@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Mike Whalen) writes:
:   So you did it? What an asshole.
: 
:   I mean that.. maybe Commodore is not the best company in the world, but
: SO WHAT? Don't like it? Then buy a fucking Mac.

Way outta line, Mike.  When it was first posted to the net, it was,
quite clearly, a joke.  Lines were removed, the article was edited,
and then it became the piece of unbelievable trash you read.

:   I don't see the point of making OTHERS pissed off when your true audience
: should be Commodore. If you want to piss off Commodore, then it seems as if
: it wouldn't be beyond your nature to send them death threats.. so just go
: and play by doing that ok?

That was not the intent, obviously.  And since you obviously weren't
here to read the original, you're way off base.

: I mean, really.

Yeah, and so do I.

:   I will tell you that none of this is good. First of all, you are making
: people's expectations go to an all-time high. When I read it I was pretty
: excited. It was everything that we all wanted. I had not seen the previous
: new Amiga post. Secondly, this is going out ALL over the fucking place!
: GEnie has it.. as well as CompuSpend. I wouldn't be too surprised if it's
: over on FidoNet and AmigaNet. 

I'm going to be damned blunt here.  Unless its an official press
release, you've got your foot up your ass believing anything you read
over a network that claims to be what that was.  I used to be on the
FidoNet, and the good majority of those people will believe ANYTHING
they read, to many people's grief.  It's one of the things that gives
it such a bad reputation.  "making people's expectations go to an
all-time high".  He didn't do that, you did, by reading a post and not
giving it any actual thought.  There are several parts of that message
that aren't exactly kosher, ya know.

If I tell you WB 2.1 will integrate BLAZEMONGER MCMLXXVII into the
operating system giving you full virtual-reality interfacing, will you
believe me?  No.

If I tell you "To hell with my non-disclosure, I don't care if I get
fined for tens of thousands of dollars and end up on skid row, it's
the truth", will you believe me?  I guess so, because you believed the
other one, eh?  Sure, the contents of the other were a little more
believable, but it's the same crock, it's just stewed differently.

:   So what is this going to prove? You are just going to piss off hundreds
: of people all over the world.
: 
:   Plus, you are a coward by not putting your name on it and pinning it to a
: newspaper that already exists.

What a total dweeb.  You've got no right calling him Jesus and
virtually crucifying him like that.  He'll probably respond to this
himself in three days or so, but that's not the point.  You've got no
clue of what went down, and you sit here preaching at him like you
wrote the Koran.

:   I suppose you won't mind if I just call them and tell them that you are
: using their name to spread lies? Maybe they won't mind? Who knows, though,
: eh?

If they were as gullible as would be said here, then maybe you should.
It's best that as many people know that was a farce and a ripped-off
post from someone who was making a joke.

The person who fell the hardest might as well be the one to spread the news.

:   Then write letters to Commodore! What's the point of pissing people like
: me off? This doesn't get me mad at Commodore, it gets me mad at YOU!
: 
:   Cripes.. some people will come up with the wildest delusions.. amazing!

And it finally strikes you square in the head, like a sledgehammer.
"some people will come up with the wildest delusions".  Absolutely,
perfectly, amazingly correct.  It was just that, a delusion, a joke.
An illusory truth.  A glimpse at a paralell universe, even.  The point
is, it was total BS.  It was posted as the intent of BEING absolute
BS, and it said so.  Then some brain-dead fool said, "ooh, this looks
neat, let's turn this loose on those fudge-headed 12-year-olds on the
FidoNet!!!"  And from there it gets all over.

Greg

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