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> ...with apologies to the ghost of Daniel Defoe.
> 
> "Yer software sucks!"
> "Does not!!"
> "Does too!"
> "Does not!"
> 
> ...sheesh. I have an Idea (look out!). Since I know that some people out
> there in Tech-Cavers Land are associated with diving publications, why
> cannot Deep-Dreck or Aqua-Corpse (obviously I grew up reading way too much
> Mad Magazine). or one of the other mags, who have no personal axes to grind
> and can be impartial (leaving out Scum Diver if any have advertised in it)
> run a side by side comparison of the various dive planning programs out
> there, and publish the results? Then maybe we, the hoi polloi, will have
> some facts to work with; invective burns bright, but sheds little light.
> 
> Any takers?

I had considered suggesting the same thing, but I expect that those who
like, or dislike, each package would then feel the same, only more so, about
those publications.  If it turned out that they all rated Abyss as the
best, then those who dislike Abyss (or those associated with it) would not
have any magazines to read.  Same goes for other packages and their
detractors.

What I would like to see is for those who don't like a specific package to
describe features they don't like, it's defects (and provide documentation 
to support their claim), and etc.  So far, all I have seen is that some
package is a piece of crap, and the only reason given is they don't like
one or more of those involved in it's production.  Heck, at least one
person has designated it crap who claims to have never seen it...that takes
real brains.

I was hopeing to find an intelligent discussion of the more advanced diving
topics when I subscribed about two weeks ago.  Did I just pick a bad time
to subscribe, and this will all blow over?  If not, are there any mail list
whose contributors are more interested in rational discussion than this
one?

--jdw

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