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Subject:Re: Flamers love their children too..... From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 4 Mar 1998 14:10:16 -0800
At 08:22 PM 3/4/98 -0000, Simon Friend wrote:
>Okay. What I was trying to say is that Frame is insular, cliquey and
>essentially arrogant!
It started out as a UNIX app. Need I say more?
>Just to prove I'm as corruptible as anyone else, a quick plug: Information
>Mapping ? the future of tech authoring!
Like most cults, Information Mapping repackages the familiar in obfuscatory
jargon to make it seem original. I have yet to find anything in Information
Mapping that hadn't been said in Aristotle's _Rhetoric_ centuries ago.
--Wayne
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