🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Jul26.013916.8540@disk.uucp> tony@disk.uucp (tony) writes:
>No point in arguing about this anymore.  What is "proper" is majority rule.
>I've been BBSing since June 1985 and everyone I know who runs a BBS refers
>to themselves or other "system operators" as SIS-OPS.  Just because someone
>writes an article in the New York Times doesn't give them anymore credibility
>than Joe Blow in the apartment adjoining mine.  Most of what is printed in
>newspapers and magazines about BBSing (and sharware too, for that matter) is
>deficient in one way or another.  Much of what we read (if we don't read it
>online) is also quite dated.
>	One of my favorite peeves is that PC Magazine didn't do a review of
>Phil Katz' PKZIP program until relatively recently and they gave me the im-
>pression that they thought it was a new program -- they don't review other
>programs that are over five years old; my point is that programs BBSers have
>taken for granted for YEARS are treated as "new hat" when they "suddenly"
>get "DISCOVERED" by old-time pc users who are brand new to BBSing.  It totally
>irks me that they want to give other old-time pc users who do not BBS the 
>impression that such-and-such program would never have been "DISCOVERED" if
>if weren't for them.

For years, as certain machines come and go as fads, there are always self-
appointed tin gods who get into various rags.  I could name names, but
I'm sure most of us can provide a few "favorites".  (SG, JP, etc.)

cjl