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- From: brendan@cygnus.com (Brendan Kehoe)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.bbs,comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: The bogus Nixpub Posting
- Message-ID: <34429@hoptoad.uucp>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 05:25:11 GMT
- References: <b0=n+#-@dixie.com> <1992Aug25.060121.10853@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>
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- Organization: Cygnus Support, Palo Alto, CA
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- In-reply-to: jgd@dixie.com's message of Wed, 26 Aug 92 01:12:35 GMT
-
- In article <p0an8#h@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
-
- I choose to run Dixie this way and that's the way it will be.
-
- Phil chooses to run nixpub his way, and that's the way it will be.
-
- Of course it is his list. The problem I have is that he represents it
- as comprehensive and nowhere that I've seen does he disclaim the fact
- that the list represents only those sites that operate the way he
- wants them to.
-
- I've never seen Phil actually say anything about the list---just post
- it. Having actively followed it for over four years, and archived it
- for over a year at Widener (it's still being maintained there), I have
- the utmost respect for both Phil and the effort nixpub represents.
-
- I have to remark on something that's always bothered me, particularly
- after having gone through it myself. Phil is providing a FREE
- service, in his own time. There's absolutely nothing in this world
- binding him to performing it, beyond his understanding that there's a
- definite need for the stuff he's collecting. People incessantly
- bitching about the inadequacies of freely available information really
- angers me. That's like stopping by a spring in Maine to fill up from
- a tap bearing the sign "free spring water," only to complain to the
- landowner that they should make sure it's purified better, cuz it just
- didn't taste right.
-
- Would you want to speculate as to how many OTHER sites there are besides
- our two?
-
- Then start your own list, contact all of those other sites, maintain
- it, and distribute it. If nixpub is so badly composed as you claim,
- then your list should gain immediate acceptance. But spite's not the
- point---improving the breadth and quality of information available is.
- If you have a better way, then do it, don't complain someone else's is
- inadequate.
-
- Someone had been posting a list of "other" open systems, but their
- name escapes me. I haven't seen it in a bit; some digging should make
- it turn up---perhaps they'll be willing to include dixie.com without
- disclosing the phone number.
-
- --
- Brendan Kehoe brendan@cygnus.com
- Cygnus Support, Palo Alto, CA +1 415 322 3811
- Oooh! A handsome stranger! And me, without my shoes on.
- --The Princess, The Emperor's New Clothes
-