Yo! Scott:
Monday June 23 1997 19:03, Scott Christensen wrote to Bill Cheek:
 SC>> Is it better on the internet?
 BC>> What is "it"?
 SC> Keeping things current.  How many different browsers and markup 
anguages
 SC> and "Java"s and such are there?
How many nations and languages are there?
 SC> You need a hard disk full of software just to access the different
 SC> web and internet sites and use all of the different nonstandard
 SC> "features" of each site.
That's kind of silly, but even assuming it's true, so what?  I don't mind.  
Do you?  You make it sound like an evil?
But it beats the snot out of trying to access each nation on the planet.
 BC>> But it differs from a normal entity in that there is no hierarchy;
 BC>> no rules-levying body; nothing to keep current.
 SC> And therefore, *nothing* is current.
And nothing isn't current.  "Current" doesn't too much matter.
 BC>> You are, of course, free (and invited) to check the foregoing
 BC>> numbers for yourself,
 SC> I will not dispute the numbers.  Big deal.  I'd rather have quality than
 SC> quantity any day.  And yes I am saying that's the tradeoff.
Hmmmmm.  I got me a whole slug of quality AND quantity here.  I agree with 
your preference....but in my case, I get to have it both.  You have to settle 
for just one or the other.  Sooooooooo sad.

 SC> Bill, I'm not going to continue this thread.  It is not an admission
 SC> of anything, I'm just tired of it.  And I'm a bit tired of the people
 SC> carrying it on.
Welllllllll, you *did* contribute to "carrying it on".  Tsk tsk tsk.  And you 
still haven't given any numbers or concreteness.
 SC> See you later when you start talking about scanners.
That's probably a good idea......BUT.....it still pays for all Users to 
develop alternative means of staying connected with each other.....which is 
and WAS the intent of this thread from the git-go.....before certain people 
felt the need to try to pollute and corrupt it.
You will see EXACTLY what I mean, if you go back up the message queue.  Aww, 
go ahead, I dare you.

Bill Cheek ~ bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team ~ Microsoft MVP
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