From: lockhart@cbmvax.commodore.com (John W. Lockhart - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Stupid Flame War [Was: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles]
Date: 24 Jan 93 22:13:40 GMT
Reply-To: lockhart@cbmvax.commodore.com (John W. Lockhart - Product Assurance)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1993Jan22.174433.5118@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>John W. Lockhart - Product Assurance (lockhart@cbmvax.commodore.com) wrote:
>: You've been squirming
>: around in your attempted "rebuttals" to Andy Finkel,

>It only seems that way to you because you happen to believe everything that
>Andy says, and none of what I say.  If you had the desire to actually read
>the articles that lead up to my current discussion with Andy, I believe that
>you'd think otherwise.

Um, pardon me, but did *you* read my .signature?  I'm _paid_ to
not believe _everything_ Andy says or claims :-)

And if I hadn't read the series of articles leading up to that
discussion, I would have been able to refrain from posting.
I couldn't get rid of the "_Enough_ of this B.S.!" thought
(triggered by your posts) in any other way.

>: you've succeeded in doing is giving me the urge to put the
>: following line in my killfile:
>:      /jerry@msi.com/h:j
>Go ahead.  Make my day :-)

The only thing making me hesitate is the added time it takes to start
reading a group.

Hmm, a bit of info for the fellow several articles after this one
who wanted to know about kill files:

(Um, yes, I tend to read a whole thread to see if anyone already said
what I wanted to say before I post... maybe, just maybe, some other
folks who aren't in that habit could give it a try?)

>:      /jerry@msi.com/h:j
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  Go find this bit of text,
>:      /jerry@msi.com/h:j
                      ^ some specs, etc. follow;
>:      /jerry@msi.com/h:j
                       ^ look in all the headers.
>:      /jerry@msi.com/h:j
                        ^ Now, with anything found,
>:      /jerry@msi.com/h:j
                         ^ junk it (mark it as read)

On a Unix-type system, put all such lines in
     ~/News/comp/sys/amiga/advocacy/KILL
(This may vary, but has been the case for each Unix/Ultrix/similar
system I've used.  [The tilde means your home directory.])

>: Now, before you say "so what?" or something of equal value, I'll grant
>: you a point:  Windows does provide several services which can aid in
>: application-writing.  (If it didn't, it wouldn't be terribly useful,
>: would it :-)  There are many trade-offs in their design, as there
>: are many in other designs.  Device independence and VM are certainly
>: strengths for word processors, spreadsheets, databases, and similar
>: productivity apps.  But might they be disadvantages for other types
>: of applications, especially given some other constraints such as
>: hardware (video display and CPU, for example)?
>:
>
>Absolutely.  This is what I've been saying all along, and if you had
>actually read what I had said, you wouldn't have felt compelled to
>repeat it here.

Sigh.  I even left room for you to say something useful in the area
of comparing services offered by different OSes or packages on different
platforms.  Seems to be hopeless, though.

Into the killfile with you, then.  Goodbye, Jerry.

  -- John

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John Lockhart, lockhart@cbmvax.commodore.com
Product Assurance Group, Software Engineering, Commodore
Working for, but not speaking for, Commodore.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy