Message-Id: <199703180537.VAA16201@sweden.it.earthlink.net>
From: "Scott Bolander" <meee AT hungary-c DOT it DOT earthlink DOT net>
To: "James Fudge" <jfudge AT adams DOT berk DOT net>
Cc: "Dion Hopkins" <centaur2 AT earthlink DOT net>, "Dino" <aardvark1 AT earthlink DOT net>,
        "OpenDOS" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Why a Newsgroup?
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:38:05 -0500
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> Scott, with all due respect to you, most of the discussion you speak of
has
> to do
> with the source code, and what some of us would like to do with it/
seen
> done with it.
>  at least we aren't fighting over wether linux can beta opendos or
wether
> linus could could beat up bill gates =]
> 
>  please don't insult us for having some ideas.

And why is it that you are discussing SOURCE CODE on a general OpenDOS
mailing list?  I just looked through my "deleted items" folder and I
noted that just about 83.2% (442/531  give or take) of the messages were
"me too's" or "Linux is great" or "if we change a byte at offset "bssh
thef ukup" then we can get an extra birthday" or "Microsoft sucks 'cause
Quake won't run on the Tandy 2000 I found in my neighbor's trash" or
"look at me!  I know cool stuff like linux...  maybe soon I'll move out
of my parent's basement"  etc....

Stop trying to impress other trekies with this crap that belongs
elsewhere and then this forum can be used for things like:  "Hey I found
this cool OpenDOS trick that speeded up my system" or "this causes a
crash on my system, anyone else?".  I guess if you compare these
questions with the ones more common on the GENERAL OpenDOS forum, even
you might be able to discern a difference.  

A lot of the comments on here are not even OpenDOS specific; like all
those arguments about DOS mailers and what-not.

Also no one is "insulting you" for HAVING ideas, just the thoughtless
manner in which SOME choose to inundate us with them.  If you truly have
some sort of divine inspiration about changing a byte in the systems
files that allows your keyboard to become "man-seed" absorbent (for all
those friendless, lonely nights) - DON'T DISCUSS IT ON THE GENERAL
MAILING LIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Take it to the developer's list
or to "alt.bestiality" or something.  Now its past your curfew; go to
bed!  You have a long day of programming ahead of you.

Scott Bolander
DISC Technologies
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