Re: BJ- Keep the mac-only posts AWAY

[shack@io.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <63oj6c$bvb$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Paul Francis Gilbert <pfg@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote:

>>   As I've said before, THINK BEFORE YOU POST! Macintrash stuff is
>>third door down the hall on the left.
>
>I disagree with you here. Whilst this is in all technicality .apple2, it
>is also Apple in general. After all, I don't see you posting any
>flaming articles when people start threads about Steve Jobs. After all, they
>have nothing to do with the Apple2, do they? Just Apple in particular. I
>must therefore conclude, (surprise surprise ;-)), that you have some 
>passionate grudge against Apple Macs.

[snip]

>So as long as we don't get flooded by Mac posts, I don't see any reason with
>having an occasional Mac post without the postee being flamed. Again, they
>are just as relevant to posts about Apple Inc., and I don't see you flaming
>people who post those sort of articles.

Nor does he give the same treatment to people posting PC related questions.
I'm not too fond of them myself, considering how I spend several hours a
day in front of a Win95 box. But I don't flip out if someone asks a
question about 'em here, I just ignore it. That kill thread feature comes
in handy at such times.

>Not that I even hold a glimmer of hope that you'll change your opinions
>Nathan, of course.

He's given me the same buncha crap, sending his little nastygram about
what groups to post Mac info in until I used procmail to put a stop to it.
Pretty hypocritical, but look who we're talking about here.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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