Re: Re[2]: A86: Re: anything useful to say?
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Re: Re[2]: A86: Re: anything useful to say?
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> Have I ever started an off-topic thread? Sure, I probably have. So what?
Have
> I ever posted an on-topic message? Yes, I have posted many.
>
>
> > either me or Bryan beyond the list? I don't think you know me. How long
have
> > you been on the list? If you were on it since Bryan was fired, you'd
know why
>
>
> I've been on the list since it was created, back in 1997. I'm sure you
don't go
> back that far.
**** I've been on this that long... I was here when you got fired. I was
here when some people attempted to go off and start another list (over at
onelist.... was that you? well, back then I joined it). My point being...
Everything coming from you somehow leads the dismemberment of Ticalc. And
frankly it's just getting annoying. I was on the 89 list for a while too...
off of that now just because it was distoyed by the off-topic religion
aregument and I couldn't handle so many people yelling and not listening...
and blah blah (<-- my little rant about 89 asm)****
>
>
> > I was fed up with his off-topic posting, mainly because it's all he
post.
>
>
> Not true. I would post more on-topic things if I wasn't so busy defending
> myself against your attacks which are largly untrue.
>
****Brian you know that recently you have been making that statement *more
and more* true. I found myself yelling at my computer screem in my dormroom
"Oh, just SHUT UP Bryan!!" People in the halls probably thought I was
nuts.****
>
> > Bryan does not know z80 ASM, Bryan is not even trying to lear z80 ASM to
my
> > knowledge, now I ask you, why is he on the list? I can give a fairly
good
>
>
> I'm on this list so I can stay up to date with information regarding the
TI-86
> and any new programs that come out.
****Not if they're afraid to post. Someone might respond to it...
Bryan...idanny... Do you guys remember that lame thread with all the
comments about AOL; and bashing AOL users? Well, I'd say that David
Phillips (who was where Brian is now) was just being foolish and
overly-righteous. But that thread stopped. And this is like the 3rd one
that you've been the heart of Bryan. As far as this list goes I see one
very **great quality** in you; you are very persistent. I've never seen you
give up. But, as with all great qualities, there comes responsibility on
when to use them, and, unfortunately... it's hurting more people than it's
helping right now.
Let me just give you some numbers really quick (you're all calculator
people... shouldn't be too hard). Someone sends a message... it's off
topic. All 50 (just an estimate the list server stats are going right now)
DL the message and it takes them each 2 seconds (to log on and get it). Now
it takes them each 1 second to open it. Then 5 seconds to read (sometimes
more, sometimes less). And a 1 second to delete it. Totaled out that's:
100+50+250+50 = 450 seconds of people's time that is used by each off topic
message. let's estimate that there's been 100 off-topic messages these past
few days (there's been close... with more (or close) than 20 messages a day.
That's 4500 seconds of people's time.that's 75 mins.... or 1 hour and 15
mins. That's a lot of other people's time these messages are using up(not
including the time to write these emails). If you're a programmer (in
Bryan's case a basic -- so this should mean even more to him). One way to
optimize code is to not call functions or methods (Java) in loops that will
always return the same value... you should just store that value to a
variable and do that... so what if it take 2 bytes; it speeds everything up
a ton.
Regards, <-- In honor of Zolton from the 89 list
Joe
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