Message-ID: <v02130500ad70a405e01e@[196.20.20.2]> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 18:28:07 +0100 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: Enough about Laptops To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
At 2:51 PM 16/3/96, John Diiwu wrote: >On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Bill Godby wrote:
>
>> What exactly does it say about the state of Devel-L when the about of
>> attention paid to "the best laptop" far outweighs the attention paid to any
>> other issue since I began subscribing. I really am tired of deleting
Bill,you are so right. :-)-O
Virtually no subscribers are from developng countries, virtually no contributors actually *DO* development, they only write *ABOUT* development.
But you probably meant it the other way around?
>> messages everyday about this topic. Wouldn't it be better for those
>> interested in this to correspond individually?
Hardly. I kicked this thread loose and I haven't commented but to one message which struck me as particularily silly. The reason is to come up with the most bacng for the buck for a project that I am (marginally) involved in to bootstrap ISP providers in the Congo basin. The project is actually an environmental one but we'd like to kill two flies with one stone...
>I don't want to believe that you're suggesting that "the best laptop" is
>not relevant to Devel-L, but that it's being discussed for too long.
>Experience has taught us that people will continue to talk about an
>exhausted topic if they have nothing else to discuss. It should therefore
>be possible for you to divert netters' attention away from "the best
>laptop" by introducing a new topic which is relevant to Devel-L. Or what
>do you think?
That's a nice sugestion :-)-O
BTW, the consensus is to take Toshiba or Compacs or Powerbook. An honorable mention goes to the idea of taking "industrialized" laptops.
el
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