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Original Message Date: 28 Jul 92 08:04:27
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From: Mark Lynch on 1:11/0
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To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1
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Subj: Format Changes
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^AMSGID: 1:11/0 6907d508
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Tom,
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Since you seemed to anticipate this kind of feedback, it probably <20>
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won't carry much weight, but I was irritated enough this time to be <20>
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motivated anyway.
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How about settling down on the FidoNews distribution format? Fun is <20>
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fun and all, but I'm really tired of being forced to change my <20>
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configuration, however trivially, every time some new fashionable archiver <20>
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strikes you. This last transition back to LHARC further shows me that you <20>
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aren't interested in the latest chic archivers so much as your own <20>
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convenience. Whatever the reasoning, it all strikes me as very fickle and <20>
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very amateur.
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Yes, I know my installation could be more robust and flexible and then <20>
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I wouldn't be impacted at all by your instability, but that's not the <20>
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point. Professional data processing has long known the value of "If it <20>
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ain't broke, don't fix it". That philosophy can also be carried to <20>
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inappropriate extremes, but I think there's a lesson there for _you_ <20>
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specifically.
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Choose a format and stick to it. "Stick to it" means _years_, not <20>
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weeks or months. And then next time you do change, I think you should <20>
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have a better reason than your own convenience (no CTTY on LHARC? WHO <20>
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CARES? Get some _real_ remote control software). In my opinion, the <20>
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convenience of over 10,000 operators outweighs your own so quit jerking us <20>
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around.
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MDLYNCH
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Original Message Date: 29 Jul 92 11:40:41
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From: Tom Jennings on 1:125/111
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To: Mark Lynch on 1:11/0
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Subj: re: Format Changes
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^AINTL 1:11/0 1:125/111
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> How about settling down on the FidoNews distribution
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> format? Fun is fun and all, but I'm really tired of being
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> forced to change my configuration, however trivially, every
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> time some new fashionable archiver strikes you. This last
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If you had been reading FidoNews, you would have found it was not a
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joke, or trivial. It was due to software problems. Believe me, I
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didn't do it for fun.
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> Yes, I know my installation could be more robust and
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> flexible and then I wouldn't be impacted at all by your
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> instability, but that's not the point. Professional data
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Well, there's your solution, right?!
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> Choose a format and stick to it. "Stick to it" means
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> _years_, not weeks or months. And then next time you do
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> change, I think you should have a better reason than your
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> own convenience (no CTTY on LHARC? WHO CARES? Get some
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> _real_ remote control software). In my opinion, the
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> convenience of over 10,000 operators outweighs your own so
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> quit jerking us around.
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"years"?! FidoNet is hardly "years" old. Compression method was
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dictated *to me* nto vice versa -- the method available on nearlyall
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machines, in a non-proprietary format. Only LZH and ZIP are available
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on IBM, Macs, Atari, CP/M, etc...
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"get some _real_ software"... Gimme a break!
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I irritate you, you irritate me... we're even.
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FidoNet is filled with whiners who do nothing and offer no
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solutions... thanks for sharing.
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