Re: UNIX newbie question

[smcleod@acs.ucalgary.ca (Steve McLeod)]

joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn) writes:

>Until I posted a message a month or two back about www and lynx, I had
>never heard anyone on c.s.a2 mention the web or web browsers. Why? It's
>certainly the greatest and most wonderful thing I've ever used my modem
>for. But, I got flamed for mentioning the SL-9 home page here on c.s.a2.

Well thats fine Joe, but I don't have time to go thru 1001 menues and crap.

>Instead, bandwidth is wasted by 8 year olds who come here and say the Apple
>II is crap, and 25 people write long empassioned answers saying it's not.
>Then we waste bandwidth on the pros and cons of piracy. Today's
>topic...Karateka is uh-uh cool. Karateka is awful. No, Karateka is kewl.

This is the net Joe. The Karateka is by no means 'wasting' bandwidth. If
you want to see wasting of bandwidth... go jump into an advocacy group. :-)

>Rhetorical question...don't send e-mail to answer...but, how many people
>are still using ftp when they should be using ncftp instead? I do not think
>that the term ncftp has _ever_ once come up in c.s.a2. Is it in the FAQ?
>No. So, lots of Apple II folks are still struggling with ftp.

Well who cares? Its like saying, if your using rn, you should be using tin
instead! I personally dislike ncftp, so I use ftp instead. Many of use
slam 5 or more ftps in the background, and unless I'm on a Sparc or Indy
where I have some screen resources, ncftp will just make a mess on a
single text screen. I find fsp bad enough!

>I guess my point is that just as I am clueless about compiling unix source,

To start with Joe, your UNIX newbie question shouldn't of been posted to
c.s.a2 in the first place. If this was any other group, you would have
gotten your butt flamed off the net! I've seen people get flamed for
much less.

>I'm sure there are many Apple II people reading c.s.a2 who are clueless to
>other aspects of the net. I'm not trying to be the netiquette police, but I
>sure wish we could learn more (and teach more) about the net from c.s.a2.

Why? Thats what FAQs are for! Most answers to common questions can be found
in news.answers. I'm sure there are a ton of others groups for this purpose
also! Hell, go start up your own alt group then if you can't find one...

>To me, it's almost sad that there are folks with a full net connection,
>reading this, who have never heard of, or used, Mosaic or Lynx. I
>know...after I posted about www, I got emails asking me what those things
>are.

So what? I have a full net connection and I've never used Lynx or Mosaic!
Hell, I don't even post that often!

smcleod@acs.ucalgary.ca