Hello James Pullen,
On 21 Jan, you wrote....
> Gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?
>
> Thank you. I have noticed in recent months that some threads have
> contained a lot of unpleasantness, due to misunderstanding or
>
> 1) Be patient and tolerant with everyone. There may be language/
> dialect issues which cause confusion. Offence is not always meant, and
>
> 2) If flamed, either reply privately, or ignore the comment. Not
> everyone wishes to read other people's arguments.
>
I think all this is already taken "as read", I certainly haven't read
anything offensive on this list.
>
> 3) If a bug or problem cannot be satisfactorily answered by anyone
> on the list, then contact the *author of the program*, not Chris
> Wiles, not Active, and not Vapor. After all, who fixes the bugs in the
> end? Olli got his Y2K bugfix for NC2 versions of Microdot within a day
> of actually being directly informed. Whether or not you feel that it
> is the distributor's responsibilty to organise bug fixes, remember
> that these are not centrally developed and have more in common with a
> collection of high-quality shareware than a package like, say MS
> Office, where all the programs therein are devloped in-house.
>
I don't know where you get your information from but it's wrong.
It is the retailers responsibility in law.
The bug fix did not happen within one day of the matter being raised
directly, I personally raised the issue directly a number of days
before this appeared on the list and I believe others did as well.
>
> 4) Remember that the others on this list are people - that includes
> Chris Wiles. Some of the things said to and about Chris at times were
> seriously offensive, and yet still some people wondered why he stopped
> replying to this list for several weeks. Treat a person down the pub
> like that, and most people would probably give you a good beating.
>
Where did you see a personal attack on Chris Wiles? Everything I have
seen posted has been relevent and about the product and support, or
lack of it. FYI Active have not been responding to e-mail on this list
or their business address for a lot longer than several weeks.
>
> Finally, please note that this is not an attack on any one person
> about any one issue. I have used examples, but mean no offence by
> them. I'm simply getting tired of dowloading 80 or so postings and
> finding half of them to be debates or arguments that should really
>be conducted via private communications.
>
This bit I just don't get at all. Your using a fully threaded mail
program with a mail download manager. Why do you download threads you
don't want to read? I would have thought that this is the whole
purpose of having a mail download manager. Sounds to me a bit like
ordering a meal you know you don't like and then complaining when you
get it ;-))
Cheers,
donny
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