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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.202620.20361@news.columbia.edu>
- Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News)
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- Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <1992Jul23.041525.5250@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Jul23.134652.21734@mks.com> <1992Jul26.013916.8540@disk.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:26:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul26.013916.8540@disk.uucp> tony@disk.uucp (tony) writes:
- >No point in arguing about this anymore. What is "proper" is majority rule.
- >I've been BBSing since June 1985 and everyone I know who runs a BBS refers
- >to themselves or other "system operators" as SIS-OPS. Just because someone
- >writes an article in the New York Times doesn't give them anymore credibility
- >than Joe Blow in the apartment adjoining mine. Most of what is printed in
- >newspapers and magazines about BBSing (and sharware too, for that matter) is
- >deficient in one way or another. Much of what we read (if we don't read it
- >online) is also quite dated.
- > One of my favorite peeves is that PC Magazine didn't do a review of
- >Phil Katz' PKZIP program until relatively recently and they gave me the im-
- >pression that they thought it was a new program -- they don't review other
- >programs that are over five years old; my point is that programs BBSers have
- >taken for granted for YEARS are treated as "new hat" when they "suddenly"
- >get "DISCOVERED" by old-time pc users who are brand new to BBSing. It totally
- >irks me that they want to give other old-time pc users who do not BBS the
- >impression that such-and-such program would never have been "DISCOVERED" if
- >if weren't for them.
-
- For years, as certain machines come and go as fads, there are always self-
- appointed tin gods who get into various rags. I could name names, but
- I'm sure most of us can provide a few "favorites". (SG, JP, etc.)
-
- cjl
-