Re: What is this list for?

From: Robert B. Waltz (waltzmn@SKYPOINT.COM)
Date: Fri Aug 04 2000 - 00:39:19 AEST


On 8/3/00, Benjamin Cramer wrote:

[ ... ]

>I don't know what Erik's quotation of the entire subscription reply was
>meant to point out - I didn't find anything that made the intention of
>the list any clearer than the portion Frazer already quoted.  But, I
>disagree with Frazer's interpretation of "A discussion list for Nisus &
>NisusWriter".  It seems NisusWriter is specifically mentioned as a topic,
>but Nisus is mentioned as well.  It seems that if we are to discuss the
>company, Nisus, that implies that discussion of any software designed
>and/or marketed by Nisus is fair game, as is the company's general market
>strategy.

Just as a note: When I first started using a certain word processor,
it was Nisus (version 2.something), and produced by Paragon Software.

So, for old fogeys like me, the description "Nisus and NisusWriter"
means old and new versions of a particular word processor.
A clearer statement (e.g. "Nisus Software and its products," or
"The word processor now known as NisusWriter") would *really*
help. It would either clearly open the list to NESY, or (my
personal hope) definitively make NESY off-topic.
--
Bob Waltz
waltzmn@skypoint.com

"The one thing we learn from history --
   is that no one ever learns from history."



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