Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:27:04 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Netiquette
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> [...]
>
> In the April issue of Asimovs (http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0204/Ref.html)=
>  Silverbob writes:
> "So I have never fully made it into the era of Windows. I am writing this =
> right now on a quite functional 1991 computer that doesn't even have a =
> modem. MS-DOS is its operating system, and a fairly ancient version of =
> MS-DOS at that. The word-processing program I use is the same one I've =
> been using since 1982, when in fact I was something of a pioneer in the =
> use of such things by writers, and it is so old that it's incompatible =
> with any program used by anybody else. Which is all okay by me: my =
> professional needs are met, I have lost the desire to master a lot of =
> complex new gadgetary skills, and so be it."

In this modern era of publishing, working on an incompatible system means he has
to turn in *paper copy* rather than a floppy or an emailed file.   I bet that
goes over big with his publishers -- someone has to *retype* his mss, with the
opportunity to introduce many new typos and errors....

--Ted White