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Started by Dave Strout
Sun, 12 Apr 1992 12:24
I'll be Posting the entire People database in RTF next week
Author: Dave Strout
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 12:24
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 12:24
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<FLAME ON>
I have this dream of setting up a script to automatically post 1/7 of
the "People" database to comp.sys.next.misc each day JUST to tick off
the anti-rtf faction.
IMHO the problem is one of philosophy, not technology. The NeXT
allows you do things that the rest of the world can't keep up with.
The question is, whose problem is it? NeXTs/the NeXT users, or the
rest of the world's? I think it's the rest of the world's problem to
keep up.
We had a problem at work lately: people w/ 2400dpi color scanners
making 40MB tiffs to put in Frame docs. The NeXT could handle it,
the scanner did it, Frame did it, the NFS file server (not a NeXT)
puked. Whose problem is it? Looks to me like it's the file
server's.
Same w/ RTF. The NeXT does it. NG does it. If you don't do it,
your broken. Not us.
<FLAME OFF>
dave.
P.S. No, I won't post all of People, much as I would like to. But
maybe just one........
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Dave Strout
NeXT Programmer
dstrout@next32.isnet.com <-- Should work...
...uunet!ihost!next32!dstrout <-- Else try this....
Re: I'll be Posting the entire People database in RTF next week
Author: Garance A. Drosehn
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:42
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:42
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In article <1992Apr12.122458.5337@next32.isnet.com>
dstrout@next32.isnet.com (Dave Strout) writes:
> IMHO the problem is one of philosophy, not technology. The NeXT allows
> you do things that the rest of the world can't keep up with.
I agree there is a problem of philosophy. I think rich-text posts are neat,
but it seems pretty silly to advocate posting rich text just to aggravate
people. This is supposed to be an information resource, not a war zone.
Inflamming peoples passions "just because you can" seems like a pretty poor
philosophy.
If there's a good reason to use richtext posts, use them and ignore the
flack. If there's no good reason to use them (and in many of the posts I've
seen there has been no good reason for RTF), then don't use it just to anger
people.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Re: I'll be Posting the entire People database in RTF next week
Author: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:49
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:49
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In article <1992Apr12.122458.5337@next32.isnet.com> dstrout@next32.isnet.com (Dave Strout) writes: > I have this dream of setting up a script to automatically > post 1/7 of the "People" database to comp.sys.next.misc > each day JUST to tick off the anti-rtf faction. That would be very mature. > IMHO the problem is one of philosophy, not technology. > The NeXT allows you do things that the rest of the world > can't keep up with. The question is, whose problem is it? > NeXTs/the NeXT users, or the rest of the world's? I think > it's the rest of the world's problem to keep up. IMHO, the problem is that you would prefer to ignore the example in other comp groups which provides for separate groups for binary postings. Such groups provide for the needs of both the pro and con factions. There will most likely be such a group within days, and you can then impress yourself (and others) with your RTF postings, without causing undue distress to people who can't appreciate your RTF genius (lack of NewsGrazer), or don't wish to fund its transport (lack of $$$). -- Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man, Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy" New Haven, CT nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
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