Re: Group dead?

Dean Kent <drkent3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in part:
> John Corse was the 'trigger', but there were several regulars here
> who used him as an excuse to demonize every visitor here who dared
> to express a contrarian view - particularly when it was not in
> praise of AMD.  It certainly drove me away, and I know of many
> others who expressed the same feeling.  The ones who remained,
> of course, were of a like mind, and defended that behavior -
> but it is obvious that they essentially killed the group.

As you anticipated, I disagree.  There was plenty of spirited
disagreement in csiphc yet it was vibrant for over a decade.

Nor did Coarse kill it.  Such impotence could not.  But he did
generate a great deal of traffic which hid the fact that there
was less to reasonably discuss with the maturing of the industry.
So when he finally desisted, traffic plummetted to where it should
have been.  Or perhaps below, because the level of vitriol generated.


-- Robert