Bing bing bing, Bob has it right. When I assumed ownership of this list in the late 80s or early 90s (you could look it up in Engst's Internet book), Nisus was the name of the program. I revised the sign up info later when the name of the pgram changed to NisusWriter. I won't be modifying it again. You have unfortunately caught me in a very grumpy mood. I don't buy the argument that just because Nisus Software creates an app it should be discussed on this list. I also don't buy the argument that Nisus users should be allowed to talk about everything and anything on this list that they want to just because they are a community. This list is for the discussion of NisusWriter. My apologies to all of the long-suffering list members who have put up with this while I let it run amok. My extreme apologies to all of the list members who gave up on me and left. I kept thinking that I could set up a list explicitly for you guys, but it really is just beyond my time right now. So the simplest solution for me is to steer this list back to where it is supposed to be. If you are one of the members that want a different kind of list--one about Nisus Email or relflections of the Nisus community members-- please feel free to create one. You have my sympathies in advance. I have two options. I can either moderate the list and reject all postings that are off topic (that is, not about Nisus, the older version of NisusWriter, or NisusWriter). Or you guys can moderate yourselves. I am not accepting discussion about this. I have already made up my mind. pf list owner At 9:39 AM -0500 8/3/00, Robert B. Waltz wrote: >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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