Yo! Scott:
Monday June 23 1997 18:54, Scott Christensen wrote to Bill Cheek:
 SC> Yes it does, my mailer is MacKennel - not even listed.  Been out for 
years
 SC> too.
You're kidding?  And they can't even nodelist it?  Must be because it doesn't 
meet FTSC specifications, eh?  Not that I give a hang.....but there's gotta 
be a good reason why it ain't in the nodelist.
 BC>> from the most recent nodelist....which is authoritative:
 SC> But does it reflect reality?  Nope!
So now we come to agreement....FidoNet does not reflect reality.   :-)
 SC> I stand by my statement.  a much higher percentage of all Macs are on 
he
 SC> internet than all IBM and clones.
Good grief.  WHAT percentage?  Minuscule is still minuscule.......
 SC> This will be changing with Win 95 becoming installed and actually
 SC> used, but it was true till very recently, and I think still is.
  Where do you find your reality checks?  Tell me, please.  I want 
one, too.  Where can the substantiation for your position be found?
 BC>> 4% according to the latest numbers I've seen in PCWEEK and
 BC>> InfoWORLD.
 SC> Both of those rags are _*BIASED*_.  (Can I emphasize that any more?)
That's a good excuse. Discrimination is always the first accusation driveled 
out by the minority in question.  Frankly, I'd like to see this bias because 
both rags are down on Microsoft all the time.  They're unmerciful to MS....
 SC> I wouldn't trust them any further than I can throw them and Byte is
 SC> no better.  I believe Intel and Bill Gates own them all.    Or
 SC> at least they own their souls - no matter how hard they protest.
But MacWorld is cool, right?
 SC> When you get a minute, start asking people on the net which kind of
 SC> computer they prefer to run on the net.  I bet you hear a larger number 
of
 SC> "Mac" than you expect.
Yes....that is true.  I polled my local Net202 which has 124 nodes at the 
present time....and found TWO Macs.  You're right - that was a larger number 
than I expected.

 SC> Now take a look at the Mac and see what a *good* GUI is all about.  
in95
 SC> still takes absurd liberties with the paradigm.  And us Mac users have
 SC> been doing it better since January '84...  almost 12 years *before* "95"
 SC> was available for purchase.
Then it follows that Mac should have taken over the planet by now instead of 
teetering on going belly up.
 
Bill Cheek ~ bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team ~ Microsoft MVP
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