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Re: Splitting the group

#814
From: -=[SLS]=-
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:17
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bjoerns@stud.cs.uit.no (Bjoern Stabell) really reaches:

>In article <BtAH3E.Bpq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-) spits:
>] bjoerns@stud.cs.uit.no (Bjoern Stabell) sez hotly:
>] >*)      I couldn't resist - someone  stated that PC programmers were
>] >        the majority in this group.  Why so?  Because they annoy the
>] >        most,  because they have most  problems or because they need
>] >        everything repeated 3 times before they get it?

>] Bjorn, perhaps there are a LOT of pc programmers, eh? Wonder what the
>] ratio is of PC type owners is to Amiga/Sun/Apple/etc. That may make a
>] difference...gee, that might even EXPLAIN it...
>
>Pure speculation.  I know one thing about the Amiga - there are ALOT of

pure speculation? Hmm, anyone have any figures for the man? 

>Seriously, even if there WERE a majority of PC owners (and I don't think
>there is considering what machines have Internet access) in this doomed

ANY machine can  have internet access. 

>net-world, would that give them the right to post PC related issues on any
>group?  Nah, you can do better than that.

I feel the PC related issues are justifiable considering the subject
matter.

>I can't see why you're so stubborn, you deserve your own group - now get

Not stubborn..I can junk any article I don't want to read, it's quite
easy.

>Just trying to keep my KILL file empty and still get what I would expect
>from my newsgroups,
      ^^
You mean, of course, from the newsgroups you subscribe to, right? 

Steve
-- 
Spirituality is what is inside : religion is humankind's vain attempt to
express it outwardly.
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