An appeal to Richard E.

From: M H Stein <mhstein_at_canada.com>
Date: Tue May 7 10:17:35 2002

Richard, I'd like to ask for your help:

Although many of your posts are way outside this list's
frame of reference and they do tend to be somewhat, umm,
long-winded, especially when you quote in full, I must
admit that overall they are better written and show more
maturity and even open-mindedness than some of your
respondents; I'm also amazed by how Pavlovian that
reponse often is and that some people can not resist
replying and arguing with you, even in spite of themselves.

So I'm appealing to your maturity and to this power you
have to start controversial threads, and asking you to please
take those discussions off-list once they get rolling.
With judicious use of CCs you and those people who enjoy
these discussions can have the same lively exchanges among
yourselves, while those of us who don't share that enjoyment
are spared dozens if not hundreds of man-hours of scrolling
and/or deleting.

Jay's efforts past and future notwithstanding, I really think
that at this point you are the only person who can actually
do something about this, and hope that you do.

Thanks in advance (I AM quite sincere; there's no sarcasm
intended in this at all.)

And this latest thread has demonstrated at least one thing, the
surprising lack of knowledge about installing/using/maintaining
Windows among some of the people dissing it, which would at least
partially explain why they dislike it so (just like the people
who don't like linux or whatever for the same reason). OEM and
scripted installs, accessibility options, use of the Windows and
Application keys, remote computing, these all seem to be less
than completely understood by some people.

Maybe we could all ask, listen & learn a bit more instead of offering
statements and opinions which are often incomplete or even wrong.

BTW, ten years ago, Win3.1 had just been released last month, and
it would be quite a stretch to call linux 0.95 an operating system.

mike
Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 10:17:35 BST