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From: phao172@ut-emx.UUCP (Randy M. Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: Amigaphobes (was Re: Hello?  Anyone out there?)
Keywords: rexx wow spiffy
Message-ID: <17072@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 89 21:23:43 GMT
References: <1428@bruce.OZ> <15814@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <16953@ut-emx.UUCP> <12270@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: phao172@emx.UUCP (Randy M. Roberts)
Distribution: comp.lang.rexx
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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In article <12270@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>In article <16953@ut-emx.UUCP> phao172@emx.UUCP (Randy M. Roberts) writes:
>>Just a friendly word of caution, IMHO there are quite a few Amigaphobes
>>who subscribe to this newsgroup.
>
>	'Amigaphobes'? I could understand folk for whom Amiga Rexx info
>would not be useable. I've seen plenty of C code that was useless to me
>because it was for a particular machine that did not interest me. But I
>don't think I'd say I was 'afraid' to see this code! :-)

I was only commenting about the episode a few months ago when Non-Amiga
REXX users were upset that Amiga REXX users were planning to distribute
Amiga-specific REXX scripts to this newsgroup.  Perhaps their attitudes
have changed since then. :-)

Since this newsgroup has a very low signal (much less a low signal-to-noise
ratio) a few machine specific REXX postings couldn't hurt too much.

Perhaps when REXX takes over the world, and this is the most popular
newsgroup (next to alt.sex), then we should consider limiting the machine
specific postings, and perhaps create a comp.lang.rexx.amiga, etc.

I hope that I did not offend any openminded persons.

Regards,
Randy M. Roberts   phao172@emx.utexas.edu