The Salon piece [was 'xyW & email']

[Carl Distefano CLDistefano@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from "..."  Sun, 30 Aug 1998
19:36:03 -0400 (EDT)

-> And while I'm here, let me say that ... the Salon piece struck
-> me the same as it did you. Without even meaning to, it made
-> xyW users look like fools.

The key phrase there is, "without even meaning to". I think that,
to a degree, being perceived as foolish goes with the territory when
you're bucking a mass-market trend, as we are. Wear it as a badge
of honor, I say. Or, since we can't control what others perceive,
just ignore it.

-> But you don't need to know anything about computers to know
-> what a cargo cult is, and she and her editor don't seem to
-> know even *that*.

I dunno, I thought the comparison was apt, in a way. In terms of
our choice of software, we're rather insular and isolated. And, we
all fervently believe that, sometime before the millennium, a box
will arrive with a shiny new SmartWords CD. ;-)

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Carl Distefano
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