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
-Bill Richman
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Received on Mon Jan 26 1998 - 20:39:25 GMT