Re: How does XyWrite compare with Nota Bene?

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≪ For months I've been lurking in the XyWrite-List, & find it--well,
different from all other lists I know. For many weeks it consisted almost
exclusively of technical discussions by XPL hackers, a small but vicious
flame war, & almost total silence by the list owner & TTG ... . Neither
the list owner nor TTG replied to direct inquiries from me, & I posted no
questions or comments because they'd have seen wholly out of place ... .
Then for a week or more there was almost total silence.
Recently--suddenly!--came a burst of fairly human discussion, though what
provoked it defeats me. ≫ --Wendell Cochran 

... should be added to the Welcome doc as fair warning! This list
sometimes gets a rueful smile out of me, but guffaws are rare.
Thanks, Wendell.

≪ In all the time of my lurking, TTG has shown no real interest in
XyWrite. ≫

You expect to find the developer posting to the NB list? Prepare to be
disappointed. Not many commercial software top execs trade public msgs
online with users. If what "someone who calls himself 'k'" posts
displeases you, consider whether you'd prefer one-way third-hand press
releases sugarcoated by flacks--but not here. Neither list is a service
of the developer, and neither list has any obligation to publish notices
for the developer nor has either firm any obligation whatever to the
list. TTG voicemail apparently still implies this list *is* a TTG service
and TTG suffers the consequences--like the bug report on TTG's stealth
beta that apparently de facto announced the new name to the list the
other day. The new software presumably preoccupies TTG these days.

win95 weirdness being blamed here on a memory leak sounds far more
symptomatic of misconfiguration or xyW 4 video flakiness, and informed
advice would be welcome. The only reason any might be expected is TTG
Tech Support's claim that it responds to queries that subscribers fail
to answer. To rouse Tech Support, however, apparently the questioner
must also must be, like JHUP, within spitting distance of Camden Yard.

As others have pointed out, NB is on the Web as well as Usenet. NB's
office ...
	Nota Bene
	285 West Broadway
	New York City 10013
	voice: 212-334-0445
... is a short walk from me in the only place in the States, I think,
where folks travel on foot. I undertook some real-world lurking a couple
of years ago--put on my shades, walked in, and asked for a demo disk.
None was to be had, but I picked up some nice brochures and doubt getting
copies requires a trip to Silicon Alley. Dorothy Day posted some
interesting specifics of xyW/NB similarity the other day in response to
misinformation I'd posted. She and several other NB adepts are xylist
subscribers. Halloooo, Dorothy? ... Bill? ...			--a

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