On 31/7/00 Nic Sanctum wrote: >Commenting on the tone of contributions and suggesting that there has >been a general deterioration is not advisable. Doing so indirectly >criticizes members and what they have said. In other words you are >flaming people. Flaming people?? Hardly, I was certainly not trying to be offensive, and I apologise if anyone has taken it that way. Commenting on what members say, is not the same as criticising them personally. If you want to see real flaming try the newsgroups. As Judyth in another post (at 4 a.m in downtown Montreal) has so succintly put it: Snip: >Nisus Writer isn't perfect and isn't necessarily the best >choice for everyone. Absolutely. So why do people keep banging on about Word having this or that feature that Nisus lacks? If it is that good use it, if it fails to suit your individual purpose ditch it. The choice is yours. I would very much like an Outliner in Nisus 6, but I doubt I'm going to get one, although maybe there will be some form of add on. Who knows. If I don't get one I'm not likely to move to Word since I can run Nisus, Inspiration (with a minimum of templates), and Bookends from a RAM disk with no problem on a PBook. I doubt you could do that with Word - if nothing else I would need to buy considerably more memory to get a big enough RAM disk - and my guess is that Word would always be making calls to the hard drive negating the point of the exercise. >I have always believed that mailing lists such as this one provide an >invaluable reference to the company behind the product. Indeed, some >lists I subscribe to are an indirect channel to tech support and the >people who are involved in the creation of the product. Many of the >problems users encounter have been solved via a mailing list. Couldn't agree more. This list has always been very helpful to me, something I've acknowledged at the time. It is certainly the friendliest and most tolerant that I subscribe to. It's just that the current evangelisation of Word seems to me to be out of place. Regards, Chirs
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