I see this list as a gathering place like you say, but I also think that
there should be *some* relevancy to the topic or else take it outside.
As a professional graphic designer and illustrator who uses both Macs
and PCs, I *was* offended by earlier remarks about how anyone that uses
a PC is relegating themselves to a wannabe status. Sometimes my work is
actually judged by.... um... the work rather than the rantings of some
damn OS bigot. When I did hardcore image editing work on a daily basis,
I had a PC running OS/2 that ran photoshop in Windows emulation faster
and with FAR more stability than the Quadra it sat next to. In that time
of my life I averaged about sixteen restarts per day on the Quadra and
about sixteen days per restart on the PC. Sometimes it's actually
important to get some work done, and OS X (Apple's first attempt at
making a stable OS) hasn't been around for very long.
So what? Basically, all this has *nothing* to do with the Newton. It
would be nice to have a place to get away from the OS bigotry, but I'd
settle for folks keeping their off-topic discussions to themselves
unless there is at least some tiny thread of relevancy to the topic the
list is for.
Steve
SlashDevNull wrote:
>Easy now turbo.
>
>This is far from a platform war. :)
>
>They way I figure it every messagelist breaks down into one of two groups.
>
>One group sees the messagelist as a vehicle to talk only about the
>messagelists' main subject.
>
>The other group sees the messagelist as a gathering place of sorts to talk
>about most anything with others who have a similar interest.
>
>So how exactly does everyone see this list?
>
>David
>
>
>
>
>>
>>Can we NOT have a platform war please?
>>
>>XP sucks. OSX sucks. NT sucks. System 7 sucks. BeOS sucks. Win9x sucks.
>>Linux sucks. NewtOS sucks. PalmOS sucks.
>>
>>All for different reasons, which we could bat about for weeks.
>>
>>Tossing around 'my friend had this and that experience moving from here to
>>there and so there sucks more than here' stories is really very 1994. Can we
>>move on?
>>
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