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- From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: meta-comp.sys.atari.st
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 02:43:20 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- In article <C0pGL9.B9E@news2.cis.umn.edu> davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu writes:
- >You needn't respond unless you really feel the urge.
-
- I guess I'm just too rabid to resist.
-
- >To Dave B. - Chill out. You're becoming positively rabid in your posts
- >to well-meaning Atari ST users.
-
- Oh, so "well-meaning" Atari ST users can dish it out, but they can't
- take it, huh? If I recall correctly, I was the one who got slammed
- with a couple hundred "rabid" messages only a few months ago when this
- all started. Let's see ... was it my post about visiting Atari,
- perhaps, that set everyone off? Could it have been? Yes, I think I've
- got that right. That and "Closed Architectures."
-
- >I did find your posting on ST Picture
- >Formats a refreshing change from the usual "you suck eggs" style that has
- >become a favorite of yours.
-
- Well, I'm glad you liked it.
-
- >Remember, all the good things you've done for Atari ST users won't
- >mean a thing when your gone; you'll be remembered as "That guy who
- >hated anyone who liked the Atari ST".
-
- Heh-heh. Do you think I'm in this for ego gratification or something?
- I really don't care if people remember that way, or any other way.
- I care a lot more about preventing more people from getting sucked
- into the Atari Lie by the rabid (correct word choice this time)
- Atari fans, who -- either through ignorance or malice -- fabricate
- data to get other people to sink money in a company that is the
- biggest disgrace in the history of the personal computer industry.
-
- I would CHANGE MY ATTITUDE OVERNIGHT if Atari got all new management
- and started putting the pieces together and working on interesting new
- prodcuts (and treating developers with respect) again. WRITE THAT
- DOWN. I'll eat those words if they do it and I don't.
-
- You paint a very simple-minded picture of my motivations. You also try
- to scare me out of saying what I think with predictions about my
- "reputation." Neither of these things is useful.
-
- >As for those psychopaths out there who think that a few deaths are in
- >order for the Tramiel family (you know who you are), get a life.
-
- I agree that wishing ill upon CEO's of companies you hate is out of line,
- but I think the sentiment is well-taken. How many people have the
- Tramiels screwed out of money? How many people have they sucked into
- buying the computer equivalent of a junk bond?
-
- >Or perhaps, you need to engage in some consensual sexual activities.
- >Maybe both.
-
- You're WAY more out of line here than anyone you mention.
-
- >When you hear something of interest (and I *don't* mean stock quotes)
- >about the ST, write about it.
-
- Whoa, what's wrong with stock quotes? How are they not appropriate
- news in an Atari newsgroup? It seems like you're asking people to be
- POSITIVE fact-finders. Sounds like a propaganda campaign to me. By
- all means, post the positive, but allow the negative to come through
- without a fight as well. I shouldn't have to take megabytes of abuse
- just because I give 101 reasons why Atari could use some fixin', should I?
-
- >You can regain a measure of control of this newsgroup, or you can let it
- >become a source of personal pleasure for folks like Chris Mauritz, who don't
- >even OWN an ST anymore; they just leave messages for the pure joy in watching
- >you squirm.
-
- Marshal your forces all you want. You won't be able to twist reality
- outside of your little universe no matter what you do. If we all care
- about Atari, we needn't take sides like that. (And, as I've said about
- three dozen times, evidently to deaf ears, I DO care about Atari.
- Otherwise I wouldn't waste my time writing messages about their faults
- or the inadequacies of their machines. If you think I'M hard on your
- Party Line, you should listen to what the Real World is saying.)
-
- Dave Baggett
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