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- From: frankj@ifi.uio.no (Frank Tore Johansen)
- Subject: Re: net.views - mainframe programmers in an open systems world
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.192940.10559@ifi.uio.no>
- Sender: frankj@ifi.uio.no (Frank Tore Johansen)
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- Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
- References: <1992Nov03.145701.22033@utoday.com> <1992Nov4.173720.22157@tandem.com> <BxrDxF.Izy@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:29:40 GMT
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- Originator: frankj@yrsa.ifi.uio.no
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- In article <BxrDxF.Izy@NeoSoft.com>, peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov4.173720.22157@tandem.com> Don Nelson <nelson_don@comm.tandem.com> writes:
- > > I'm having a little trouble understanding the question. Perhaps you
- > > could explain in 25 words or less why mainframe programmers differ from
- > > programmers in "the open world" (which is definitely not as open as some
- > > people think).
- >
- > Mainframe programmers are used to working in sweatshop conditions, and will
- > eat the lunch of us little hothouse roses unless we quit playing around on
- > netnews and start taking end-users seriously.
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- That was 31 words 8)
- Are you the right person to say that about news... 8)
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- > Seriously.
-
- OK, then. Has anyone ever researched in how much time is wasted
- reading/posting news compared to what is gained from it?
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