🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Aug12.185557.2113@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>In article <62430018@acf3.NYU.EDU> reznick@acf3.NYU.EDU (Daniel Reznick) writes:
>
>>I
>>have nothing against discussions on non MS-DOS platforms, but the fact
>>of the matter is, NO ONE has tried to start any.
>
>That's because most non-MSDOS people have stopped reading the group.
>How about putting 'PC' in the subject of all PC-harware-specific posts
>so we can mass-kill them?

[Preface: This is not a flame.]

Granted, much of the nitty gritty specifics of PC stuff may be useless
to you, but surely you could learn SOMETHING from these sorts of
postings? Some things are more hardware-dependent than others, and a
good idea is even better if you can figure out a way to port it to your
platform of choice. Mass kill PC-related postings if you want, but IMHO
you'll be missing out on a potential learning opportunity. I'm certainly
not above stealing a good idea from an Amiga or Atari newsgroup (in
fact, I've done just that).

BTW, to those who want to mass-kill PC postings, I think you can do a
pretty good job using strings like "VGA," "EGA," "CGA," "Hercules," etc.
Then, after you have filtered out all such posts, you can easily find
the remaining non-PC-specific posts which remain.