Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:56:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <9eWdnVQgKbylfg3OnZ2dnUVZ_i2dnZ2d@giganews.com> <100620141825562342%timstreater@greenbee.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1402430179 572 166.84.1.5 (10 Jun 2014 19:56:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:56:19 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22718 comp.sys.mac.system:60707 Tim Streater wrote: > The salient point here, which seems to escape Billy-boy and other > nay-sayers, is that there may be some difference between an app you > write purely for your use, and one - even with no more than the same > feature set - which is fit to be used by other people. > > There can be any number of idiosyncrasies in what might be termed a > hobby app, which don't bother the author but will bother other people. It hasn't escaped me, at all. The best software is written by people who actually use it themselves, and are really into doing what they're doing (in my case, their work) well. If it's fit for me, it's fit for anyone. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number