[rescue] Mac Appliance-hah!

[Amy]

<insert canned slightly apologetic sounding response here>
<add paragraph somewhat identifying with your pain>
<add shrug of shoulders>

sorry man. they're the majority of posters here. unless they start a holy
war, we let em say what they want.

--a




On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Dan Canaan wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what exactly does any of this discussion about this
> or that operating system being better than the other, this or that
> application does this or that better than another, etc?  This particular
> topic has since long devolved from a simple request about putting BSD or
> Linux on a Macintosh and which Mac was best suited into yet another drawn
> out OS war.
>
> I had thought it was about the subject header- Mac Appliance.  But that
> ceased to be the topic some 80+ messages ago.
>
> This list has a wealth of information to share- when people actually share
> it.  When it becomes 200+ messages a day about nothing even remotely
> related to the subject line, then it's just bloat.  At least it makes it
> easier for me to delete the messages unread.  I can set up a filter to just
> screen out all messages with "RESCUE" in them since I know it won't have
> anything to do with rescuing old computers.
>
> That's my rant.  I'm still here and will keep reading the first few
> messages of each new thread, but when it starts bloating, off into the
> killfile it goes unread.  It wouldn't be so bad if it was just a few
> messages, but it's literally dozens, then hundreds of messages totally off
> topic.  If there was real information or content to be found, you wouldn't
> ever see it for all the noise.
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