Hello Alan,

Ummm yes or no will suffice, you already stated you were unemployed,
are you trying to create employment for yourself off the backs of
community groups?

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Tuesday, December 17, 2002, 4:56:00 PM, you wrote:

AL> Terry,

AL> I'm unsubscribing from a number of user group lists. 
AL> I've spent too many years working on this and,
AL> frankly, expected a greater understanding back in the
AL> States.  I was wrong.

AL> I simply do not wish to argue with those not as well
AL> prepared, nor as serious about low-cost universal
AL> access.

AL> Terry you should know about Service Factory, although
AL> may not want to discuss it... I understand you own the
AL> user group name...

AL> You're probably running around trying to find how to
AL> create value.  Maybe you can.  Or, maybe not.  There
AL> are only a few telecom experts who as yet really
AL> understand the overall picture... the tech, standards
AL> development, complex regulatory processes, political
AL> issues, industry competition, etc.  Oops!  And then
AL> there's me...

AL> I am only being partially facetious.  But certainly no
AL> one but me will talk about it.  It's taken years
AL> of reading... anything and everything.  But, then
AL> again, lacking employment responsibility, I had the
AL> time.  

AL> At this time, my real goal is to let all the
AL> pointy-headed, closed minded, and somewhat lazy, know
AL> that when the future arrives, I had warned them. 
AL> There's still time for you guys... but you need an
AL> expert... a generalist that's observed it all,
AL> dispassionately.  Frankly, technologists screw up all
AL> the time, as would anyone forced into a narrow vision
AL> by employment or specialty.  It's nobody's fault...
AL> save for those
AL> self-annointed, self-styled, savants who've given me
AL> grief.  You guys have a small window... now we'll see
AL> how truly brilliant you are.  And the guys who've
AL> paid for nodes can see just what their investment
AL> bought... and it ain't gonna be money in any event. 

AL> I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm... because I'd
AL> dearly love to see the incumbents quashed.  Forgive me
AL> for speaking bluntly.  But, it is simply irrefutable.

AL> You've now got radius, phased-array, and the
AL> multilateral financial settlement that allows
AL> interoperability coupled with independent platform
AL> deployment.  All the ingredients are now available.  

AL> (Note: Soon you'll have ID's, as I described... or
AL> forget the government, insurance companies, courts,
AL> certain politically empowered stakeholders, etc...
AL> which means don't waste your time any further.)  

AL> It's really rather simple.  The rest is only
AL> organization and advocacy.  And, because the
AL> incumbents move so slowly, and you guys did such a
AL> good job in publicity and deployment, it's all up to
AL> your vision and ongoing effort.  You've got a few
AL> months to accrue large community stakeholders that can
AL> help in your battle... that will take place at city
AL> hall.  

AL> You better have the vision, and the work, and the well
AL> heeled stakeholders... anyone else can offer only
AL> worthless, good buddy, jive... only smoke and mirrors.
AL>  It's not about money, but raw power.

AL> Enjoy the fifteen minutes.  Or, find someone as well
AL> educated on the subject, and more willing to wade
AL> through the rubbish.  You really do have my best
AL> wishes.  You need a management that understands, time
AL> for the effort itself, and a good Jewish cowboy, like
AL> me, who can get in at the highest level and talk
AL> privately with certain money center investors... for a
AL> lot of diverse reasons that I'm not, maybe ever, going
AL> to go into.  And I mean NOW.  

AL> Terry, as I just saw on PBS... you needed a pr--k, not
AL> a little high school teacher who'll tell you how nice
AL> you are.  No ill feelings whatsoever on my part, but
AL> like the breeze... poof... I'm gone!

AL> My offlist email is always open.

AL> Best, Alan
 
AL> --- Terry Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> As with every list message is instructions about how
>> to unsubscribe yourself.  If you wish to 
>> unsubscribe, please follow them.  I have only 
>> warned you to be nice and not banned you as the
>> NoCat list has.
>> 
>> --Terry
>> 
>> --On Monday, December 16, 2002 9:04 PM -0800 Alan
>> Levy 
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>> > Mr. Schmidt, concerning the offlist note about my
>> > lack of niceness with evilbunny, you've got a good
>> > point.  However, please unsubscribe me.
>> >
>> > Best, Alan
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