Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rlgvax!geller From: geller@rlgvax.UUCP (David Geller) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Pournelle Column this month Message-ID: <432@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 12:42:30 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.432 Posted: Thu Feb 7 12:42:30 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 07:58:35 EST References: <801@sjuvax.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 15 > I'll buy all of that. And Pournelle, as usual, goes on to write a technical > and jargon filled column. Most of the time I find his writing style > refreshing, but the hypocrisy this month was a little much. > > I plan to write to the editor, and to Jerry, and complain. I would be > curious to see how others feel about this month's column. What do you think writing to the editor will accomplish. Had the article been maligning, pugnacious, or libelous then I might agree that a letter to the editor would be warranted. But if its just to complain that you don't like his style of writing then it might be easier to just not read his column! SAVE A PIECE OF PAPER AND A PIECE OF A TREE (unless you write to Byte via The Source or something). David P. Geller