Re: Flame of the latest fact free bandwidth polluter (Re: "Debate:")

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From: Chris Thomas
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 05:40

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In article <DDFBpK.2zuL@austin.ibm.com>, medcalf@ppc5.svo.dfw.ibm.com
(Jeff Medcalf (214) 280-5970 IBM SDO) wrote:

> Actually, you seem to be missing the point.  (In 'you' I include a large
> number of people who flame AOL users as 99.999% "lamers.")
> 
> There are a *huge* number of intelligent people on AOL, who have a lot
> to contribute.  But due to the unwelcome and general low intelligence
> standards evidenced on Internet groups, the more intelligent users stay
> away.  Internet has a treasure trove of resources, but of USENET very
> little is actually useful.

Not true.  This group may not be useful, but there are thousands of
other groups which are.  The entire comp. hierarchy, for example.
I don't know why only AOL's idiots choose to post on Usenet, but
that's not a valid reason.

-- 
Chris Thomas, ckt@best.com

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From: ckt@best.com (Chris Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Flame of the latest fact free bandwidth polluter (Re: "Debate:")
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 21:40:25 -0800
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