Re: Ian Schmidt

[daye@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Just a Guy Made of Dots and Lines)]

In article <if32391@pro-finders.cts.com>,
Jerry Guy <jguy@pro-finders.cts.com> wrote:
>In <CDCqyC.K7t@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
>
>>In article <id71590@pro-applebcs.cts.com> efr@pro-applebcs.cts.com (Ernest Roshier) writes:
>>>WHO IS IAN SCHNIDT AND WHY IS HE SO DISAGREEABLE ? ?  ?  ?  ?
>>               ^-M, thanks
>>
>>He's just this guy, you know...
>>
>>(Is the ProLine lag worse than I thought?  Somebody on pro-applebcs tell me
>>when this post gets there, keeping in mind I'm sending it at 11:25am CST, on
>>Tuesday September 14).
>
>To Ian:
>
>What is it that you are calling 'the ProLine lag'? The fact is that on many
>ProLine system the mail is only fetched and delivered every couple of days,
>or once a day, or once a week. This is a sysops choice to save money on long
>distance phone charges, not a software lag or defect. I'm sure that every
>sysop would love to have a direct connection to a system on the internet, or
>hourly poll a local site for mail but this is a big country and some of us
>still live in a area where network access, Genie, AOL, Compuserve, and
>any other systems that carry usenet news and internet email are long distance
>calls. I think the problem is the phone company not the 'ProLine lag' as you
>so piously state from your throne. 
>
>In the 70's and 80' there were brilliant programmers who totally lack any
>social skills but could code up a storm. The were an asset to their employers
>ad to all who used their products, however, they were not allowed to roam the
>corporate halls and spout their tales of how badly everything in the world,
>except they stack of code, effected their pittiful lives! They were kept in
>closets where they could be productive without being annoying to all that
>they meet. Any one know someone like this?
>
>Jerry
>
>

Um, I hate to pull you off your soapbox, but the Proline lag Ian was describing
is exactly what you claim he's not...most Proline sites don't poll news/mail
every day.  If you'd stop to actually read what he writes (which is sometimes
hard to do through all the sarcasm ;) you'd have known that.  

Some folks really are so anxious to take offense that it's no wonder this
group is constantly plagued with flame wars...   
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|daye@CSOS.ORST.EDU      |  course of history.  Remember that."
|"Redneckers, they get us|                         - M. L. Gore               
| pissed" - Black Francis| Okay, now just who's opinion is that up there?