From:	Brian W Allison <ballison@*******.WAM.UMD.EDU>
Subject:	Re: New SR E-mag
Date:	Mon, 2 Dec 1996 18:00:28 -0500

On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Gurth wrote:

> > He made his decision - based on Gurth's advice "Because Gurth has done
> > this before" - about 24 hours ago.
>
> You can't deny that I have some experience in formatting stuff in a word
> processor; if Fro thinks that makes my comments advice to be listened to,

I certainly can deny that you are without - in my evaluation -
sufficient breadth and depth of experience using computers in general to
made recommendations to me as if they're fact.

In fact, I do so *now*.

And of course you'll not attempt to dissuade *anyone* from taking your
advice with weight. That'd be against your best interests.

> then I'm not going to stop him. In the end, it all comes down to what Fro
> thinks is the best way to deal with this, whether he bases his decision

Exactly. I first said that about.... 20 hours ago (as of this writing.).

You're behind SOTA.

> My position on this and most anything else: *any* comment made by
> *anyone* (including this one) is only advice to be considered; if anyone's
> trying to tell you otherwise, then *certainly* only take it as advice.

Ah. Then perhaps you might not want to make wide-sweeping statments as
you've been doing without data &/or experience to back it up.


Of course, this is all IMO and you can ignore it if you wish.

(that ought to make it easier to ignore...)


Brian W. Allison

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