Re: Ian Schmidt

[jguy@pro-finders.cts.com (Jerry Guy)]

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





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