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Article #253Re: DR bad, VAX PRO good
From: Gerald W. Lester
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 22:19
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 22:19
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Joel,
In article <1SEP199210172255@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu>, jms@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem) writes:
>Well, as self-interested as I may be on the subject of Digital Review and
>Digital News, I think I'll respond to SCHENKENBERG@Monmouth-ETDL1.Army.MIL,
>murphy@npri6.npri.com, and others.
>
>Suggesting that one should refuse to read anything in the same format as
>the National Enquirer betrays an astonishing parochialism. Eliminating
>fee-free publications from your reading list will cause you to be
>ignorant of the nature of the industry you work in, probably more so than
>if you believed every word that Bill Hancock wrote. You should be able to
>distinguish between fact and fantasy, between press release and media hype,
>and between correct and incorrect technical information.
The problem that at least some of us have is that we don't have time to
read all of sources of information. I have eliminate DR from my list due to
the amount of material that I had to read to get new and useful information.
P.S. - I have a Matco mug for pointing out to DR that VMS does *NOT* run on
any of the PDP-11 series.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!usc!wupost!tulane!cpu.com!cpu.com!GWLESTER From: gwlester@cpu.com (Gerald W. Lester) Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals Subject: Re: DR bad, VAX PRO good Message-ID: <1992Sep1.221944.12789@cpu.com> Date: 1 Sep 92 22:19:44 GMT References: <01GO9M76948G94DQA0@MONMOUTH-etdl1.Army.MIL>,<1SEP199210172255@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu> Sender: usenet@cpu.com (Usenet administrator) Reply-To: gwlester@cpu.com Distribution: world,local Organization: Computerized Processes Unlimited, Metairie, LA, (504)-889-2784 Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: merlin.cpu.com