Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!gatech!udel!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!microsoft!alonzo 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) Distribution: na Organization: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA Lines: 24 References: 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)