"Dan Langille"<dan.langille@dvl-software.com> wrote:

>I hope it will answer your question sufficiently if I say that
>it was the reaction to a service outage announcement which
>was the final straw.

OK, well, I don't condone in anyway the expletives or vehemence of the post,
but similarly I am a little disappointed that this should result in people
resigning the list, in as much as I expect they get a proportion of phone
callers who are similarly badly behaved and I doubt that they relinquish their
phones over it. It is a sad thing that one persons outburst, however
justifiable, or not, should result in the input from the rest of us now being
studiously ignored.

>The actual decision makers are hardly likely to take notice of
>someone bashing their company and calling names.

There's bashing, and then there's constructive criticism, bathos, hyperbole
and irony... some of those can work over the long term, <grin>.

> >let's also note the similarity of the irritations:
> >
> >"They also have an explicit NO SERVERS rule"
>
> I believe this is in Xtra's latest flat-rate rules for dial up modems.

Precisely, it's a similar interdiction.

> Dan Langille

Hamish.

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Received on Thu Jun 3 17:02:18 1999