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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!unix1!gardabr
- From: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen)
- Subject: Re: Ignorance is part of the Lamb.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.144646.2430@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: MRIH, More og Romsdal Ingeniorhogskole
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
- References: <1992Nov16.135611.21043@alf.uib.no>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:46:46 GMT
- Lines: 63
-
- In article <1992Nov16.135611.21043@alf.uib.no> Ruben wrote:
- : Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen writes:
- :
- : [... wast of bandwidth on local situation deleted ...]
- :
- : > However, to run tin, I have to telnet unix1. When I telnet unix1
- : >from samson, vi (which is the silly editor tin uses on unix1) does no longer
- : >recognize the cursor keys, and editing anything is impossible. I can at best
- : >post something without quotes - if what I write is correct before I press
- : >return.
- :
- : How about TRYING TO LEARN your software before using it ? This goes not
- : only to VI, but also to ircII and tin.
-
- I know how to handle VI. I know how to handle tin. I know how to handle ircII.
- And do you know how I learned to use it? By using it.
-
- : How about asking someone ? Nay... others are LAME...
- Aren't you drawing a somewhat premature conclusion here? What do you know what
- I ask people around here?
-
- : Maybe you are just lazy and do not want to have any other info that the
- : one that is give to you personaly, and the whine if you don't like it ?
- These are your words. I probably don't even feel like commenting on what I
- hereby classify as a personal flame. Just the redirection of the reply to
- "he he he... drit i det" <somewhere@over.the.rainbow.oz> is quite childish,
- actually...
-
- :
- : There is a excelent VI archive on alf.uib.no, but then again I suspose
- : you prefer to ftp to utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp since that is in Japan, and it's
- : sooooooo cool to do it. In the VI archive you will find anything that you
- : ever need to learn VI.
- :
- In fact, I prefer not to ftp at all other than when I need something and I
- don't feel like programming it myself. Also, installing a functioning version
- of vi is not my job. I have tried to persuade the one who does this to compile
- tin on the samson and use emacs instead, but he just says that "something went
- wrong when I tried to compile it on samson, and it won't do any good to try it
- again."
-
- : Oh I forgot... you come from The PC Generation... I forgive you...
- :
- Once again, a premature conclusion. No. Sorry. I come from the Sinclair
- Spectrum owner who upgraded to ST and further to Mega 4 STE and made a Spectrum
- tape loader through the printer port before releasing one of the better disk
- magazines and quite a few demos pushing the motorola to its limit-generation.
- PCs are things I just got involved with because all the schools run with them.
-
- : [... waste of bandwidth on a disclaimer discaliming that disclaimers are a
- : waste of bandwidth deleted. Beside, the things you call disclaimers are
- : so called .sigs. Signatures are small textfiles that is appened to the
- : outgoing post ...]
- :
- : \Ruben (Bandwidth waster).
- : (Say NO to uanttened bots)
- :
- :
- Hey! What's this? "Bandwidth waster", well, according to yourself, a really
- good way to waste bandwidth is to make some bots... and then flood them.
- How can you then say no to unattended bots?
-
- /Gard
-