At 2:18 AM 10/22/95, Todd Glassey wrote:

As an aside - What blows my mind is the number of cycles people spend bitching and moaning about Java itself rather than working to create a better solution.

The recent flames and attacks are pretty typical of mailing lists, especially mailing lists having 1200 highly-opinionated subscribers (gulp!). Not that I like the flames, but they're not the problem I want to really talk about. A trend that bothers me--and others too, from comments here--is the intense "feeding frenzy" that is going on with each and every new product, from Netscape, to Microsoft Network, to Java, to Digicash. Don't get me wrong--finding flaws is a useful thing to do. But this list is becoming _consumed_ by the _process_ of attacking products. Worse, many of the attacks are by innuendo, by rumors and speculations about what features a product has. My comments will likely vanish without a trace, but I urge folks to hold back a bit on jumping in with attacks and reports of problems. Be sure something is _really_ a flaw before sounding the alarms. --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."