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From: alonzo@microsoft.UUCP (Alonzo Gariepy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comp.binaries.amiga (was Re: Picture swap)
Message-ID: <1560@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jun 88 10:39:29 GMT
Reply-To: alonzo@forward.UUCP (Alonzo Gariepy)
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I think we've all been sharked here by Peter.  He doesn't really have it
in for binaries or non-programmers.  He is only trying to demonstrate
how much net bandwidth is wasted when some righteous asshole starts
making baseless claims that encourage all other readers of a news group
to jump in with serious (but ultimately unnecessary) objections.  He has
expanded his demonstration to show that the original perpetrator can waste
as much or more bandwidth as the objectors by replying to each identical
followup message with equally identical and meaningless rhetoric.

You should have been clued in to his educational ploy by the obvious stupidity
of trying to get a concensus from a completely anarchic organization (this
newsgroup) on the dissolution of part of its existence (comp.binaries.amiga).
If that didn't raise a flag then you should have realized that his outrageous
affectation of authority and selfless idealism could only be feigned.

I say: well done!  I'm sure I could have gotten the binaries of several
good programs into the space taken up in useless rebuttals alone!

I work here now...

Alonzo

alonzo@microsoft (by way of utzoo if you must)